Is XAA still supported in recent and future xserver?

Matt Dew matt at osource.org
Mon Sep 13 08:18:12 PDT 2010


On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 8:37 AM, Alex Deucher <alexdeucher at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 10:29 AM, Matt Turner <mattst88 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 4:06 AM, Marc Scherer <marc.scherer at mp-ndt.de> wrote:
>>> We are using the siliconmotion video driver and the performance on a
>>> xserver dated June 2009 was better with XAA than with EXA.
>>>
>>> Since I am just starting again to work on the driver: will XAA be
>>> available and supported in the near future?
>>>
>>> Thanks for comments,
>>>
>>> Marc
>>
>> Yeah, XAA is still there. Too many older DDXs only support XAA to
>> think about removing it.
>>
>
> That said, it's not seen active development in years and has
> bit-rotted in a number of areas resulting in various bits of
> functionality being disabled (offscreen pixmaps for example).
>
> Alex
>
>> Matt

Is that something that should go on a TODO (wish)list?  Move remaining
DDXs from XXA to EXA? Maybe improve those drivers' performance on EXA
first?

Matt


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