Great slowness with radeon(4x) and AccelMethod "EXA" for X.Org 7.2

Michel Dänzer michel at tungstengraphics.com
Mon Jun 18 09:02:42 PDT 2007


On Mon, 2007-06-18 at 16:54 +0100, Chris Rankin wrote:
> --- Michel Dänzer <michel at tungstengraphics.com> wrote:
> > Why? It shouldn't be hard for someone with the hardware to port the r300
> > bits.
> 
> ...
>  
> > I did the initial implementation for r300 and i915tex.
> 
> OK, so if you give me a few signposts to follow I'll give it a bash, although I'm not familiar
> with the internals of the DRI code. Just so long as I don't need to reference any hardware
> information. 

You shouldn't need any of this. Look at mesa commit
59a08923f51d4ed83effbfcd91473c9ee86465f1 (or the next one for i915tex)
and adapt the changes to r200.

> (And the R100 driver too?)

Sure, the more the merrier. :)


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