[PATCH] EXA support for i830 (for real this time!)

Alan Hourihane alanh at fairlite.demon.co.uk
Fri Aug 26 09:40:36 PDT 2005


On Thu, 2005-08-25 at 21:09 -0700, Jesse Barnes wrote:
> Ok, this one actually works (for me anyway).  Stuff this patch into your 
> i810 driver subdirectory, build it, add "AccelMethod" "EXA" to your 
> driver section and "Composite" "Enable" to your Extensions section, run 
> xcompmgr -s and it should be pretty usable.
> 
> TODO list:
>   o get review from alanh
>   o put XAA and EXA stuff in separate files (and other 
>     cleanup/refactoring)
>   o deal with dual head and Xv correctly (totally untested)
>   o add Composite hook support
> 
> Please test and send feedback!

I've reviewed the patch, and you are absolute right that the TODO list
above needs attention. There's a few other things where you've wrapped
stuff around with I830_USE_XAA which should need an EXA equivalent,
especially syncing the hardware too.

Thanks for taking on this task.

Alan.




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