[patch] drawing window borders always falls back to software

Jonathan Morton jonathan.morton at movial.com
Fri Sep 25 03:07:15 PDT 2009


On Thu, 2009-09-24 at 21:21 -0400, Michael wrote:
> So, yeah, EXA is unaffected. Unfortunately I can't do that on some of  
> my hardware since there's no mappable (useful) framebuffer. Which is  
> also one reason why I can't switch to EXA - not all hardware made for  
> X11 can work like EXA wants it to.

EXA *can* cope with non-mappable framebuffers, provided you either
accelerate every possible operation involving it, or (preferably) you
provide a way to retrieve a copy of it to system or mappable memory.

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From: Jonathan Morton
      jonathan.morton at movial.com




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