Is XAA still supported in recent and future xserver?

[Alex Deucher]

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
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