[PATCH resent] Death to Multibuffer extension

Alan Coopersmith alan.coopersmith at oracle.com
Wed Apr 7 09:36:39 PDT 2010


Tiago Vignatti wrote:
> The rationale behind is because no sane application will use this when we have
> modern APIs such DRI2.

Isn't DBE the more direct replacement for MBX?  The MBX spec [1] says:
  The Multi-Buffering extension described here was a draft standard of
  the X Consortium prior to Release 6.1. It has been superseded by the
  Double Buffer Extension (DBE). DBE is an X Consortium Standard as of
  Release 6.1.

[1] doc/xorg-docs/specs/Xext/buffer.ms, formatted version at
    http://www.xfree86.org/current/buffer.html

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