[Xorg-driver-geode] Patches to xf86-video-geode for X 1.13

[Gideon Romm]

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On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 12:59 PM, Martin-Éric Racine
<martin-eric.racine at iki.fi> wrote:
> 2012/7/21 Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst at canonical.com>:
>> Hey,
>>
>> I created a bunch of patches to make this driver compile against X1.13,
>> but I have no idea if it actually works or not. Could you review and test please?
>>
>> X 1.13 did away with XAA and xf86Screens[] array, so I'm following the
>> other drivers with compat-api.h. This allows compilation on x1.12 and x1.13.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Maarten
>
> Hey Maarten,
>
> Thank you very much for these patches! I myself was wondering what to
> do about XAA today, so these came at the right time. I forwarded them
> to the Geode X.org list so that everyone can review them.
>
> Please note that reverting the default acceleration for the GX
> component to EXA won't work, because that component's EXA support is
> buggy and outdated and, if you look at the upstream ChangeLog, you'll
> notice that we had reverted to XAA as a kludge. None of the current
> Geode developers seem to have access to GX hardware to test or
> sufficient knowledge of the X.org internals to blindly fix the code,
> so it has remained unfixed.
>
> Cheers!
> Martin-Éric
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