Q: puzzle about the index of PrepareAccess

Maarten Maathuis madman2003 at gmail.com
Thu Dec 2 02:16:21 PST 2010


On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 10:48 AM, fancy fang <fancyfly09 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear all,
>            In xserver 1.9.0, there is an access array to cache previous
> results to reduce cost. Howver, this optimization would modify the original
> index and give the wrong index to driver PrepareAccess. Also, sometimes
> driver PrepareAccess need to know the pixmap is used to be read or written.
> Now, nobody can confirm that the driver PrepareAccess can get the right
> index now. Can someone exaplain this? Thanks!
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Fancy
>
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In principle any index can be used to read and write. Often SRC and
MASK will only be read and DST will be read-write (this also goes for
the AUX indices), but it is possible for a pixmap to get a random
index. Does that answer your question?

Maarten.

Maarten.


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