Is XAA still supported in recent and future xserver?

[Tiago Vignatti]

On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 05:26:34PM +0200, ext Alex Deucher wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 11:18 AM, Matt Dew <matt at osource.org> wrote:
> > Is that something that should go on a TODO (wish)list?  Move remaining
> > DDXs from XXA to EXA? Maybe improve those drivers' performance on EXA
> > first?
> 
> I'm not sure it's worth the effort.  Much of the older hardware isn't
> even capable of EXA (lack of offset-based blitters for solid/copy and
> the lack of 3D engines for composite).  For hw that is, it's a lot of
> work for old hardware that hardly anyone one uses.  I suppose there
> are a few chips that are still used where it may make sense.  In many
> cases shadowfb is as fast or faster than the blitters on these old
> chips anyway. XAA is mostly sw rendering now anyway.

so this means we could deprecate XAA from the server, and if one cares about
it we recommend to use old servers?

             Tiago