Is XAA still supported in recent and future xserver?

Michel Dänzer michel at daenzer.net
Tue Sep 14 02:58:03 PDT 2010


On Die, 2010-09-14 at 11:49 +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: 
> 
> Gallium3D is a generic, shader-centric acceleration framework which can
> already provide acceleration in the X server via a so-called 'state
> tracker' which hooks into EXA.

BTW, let me point out that this can already accelerate some things which
few if any other free drivers can, namely solid and gradient pictures.
Gallium3D should make adding acceleration for trapezoids relatively easy
as well.


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