radeon tiling again...

Keith Whitwell keith at tungstengraphics.com
Sun Jan 23 04:27:26 PST 2005


Michel Dänzer wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-01-23 at 02:48 +0100, Roland Scheidegger wrote:
> 
>>You're right though it might not be a very good idea to support depth
>>moves corretly only sometimes. Guess it would in fact be better to not
>>support them at all, Keith seemed to be perfectly happy with that
>>solution. Will remove them.
> 
> 
> That, or at least don't allow enabling them if tiling is disabled. Maybe
> they would be useful if done by the engine instead of the CPU?

I think really the radeon hardware is heavily tilted towards private 
depth buffers, maybe the effort would be better spent in that direction. 
  Another two-way handshake required, but if we get comfortable with 
that idea, it should be fairly easy to get working.

Keith



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