Is XAA still supported in recent and future xserver?

Matt Dew matt at osource.org
Tue Sep 14 11:03:35 PDT 2010


2010/9/14 Michel Dänzer <michel at daenzer.net>:
> 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.
>

I'm definitely not wanting to start an argument here.   I know next to
nothing and I just want to help improve things.

Where's a good place to start?  (I'm documenting this so others can benefit)

Matt


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