[Pull v2] Glamor - fixed build failure, fixed coding style problem.

Michel Dänzer michel at daenzer.net
Thu Oct 20 02:04:51 PDT 2011


On Mit, 2011-10-19 at 11:20 -0700, Jeremy Huddleston wrote: 
> 
> As I understand it, you want to allow accelerated 2D rendering at the
> *DIX* level (whereas EXA and XAA are for Xorg DDX drivers).

Actually, EXA is at the DIX level as well, and used by Xephyr.

> That is a great goal, but another current goal of many of us in Xorg
> is to eliminate the non-Xorg DDXs and replace things like XQuartz,
> Xnest, and Xvfb with drivers in the Xorg "DDX" ... after that is done,
> hw/xfree86 will actually be device-independent and we can start
> refactoring the current DIX/DDX boundary.

Jamey's idea might be a nice way to address that.

Either way, if glamor can stop the ridiculous proliferation of X
acceleration layers, I'm all for it...


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