[Xorg-driver-geode] Glyph rendering

[Michel Dänzer]

On Mit, 2010-07-21 at 15:30 +0800, Huang, FrankR wrote: 
> 
> I have tested if it using PICT_a8r8g8b8 trick when it is fully
> implemented in HW(althought the result is wrong). The speed(may be is
> maximum) is nearly 100000/s.

That sounds better.


> But as you known, for the PICT_a8r8g8b8 method, the width and height
> of source sometimes can not be divied by 4(such as 5...), so the
> remaining pixel PictOpAdd should be done by SW code.

The height doesn't matter, and if there's a writemask it should be
possible to use that to mask out source/destination pixels that don't
align to an ARGB pixel.


> For the mixed way(HW+SW as I described above), the speed can be
> 50000/s, unfortunely the result still is not correct(seems correct by
> debugging, I'm still checking it).

Sounds like maybe you're not properly synchronizing between GPU and CPU
access.


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