Trident CyberBladeXP4 status?

[Alan Hourihane]

On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 01:07:30PM -0500, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
> >>>>> "AH" == Alan Hourihane <alanh at fairlite.demon.co.uk> writes:
> 
> AH> Unfortunately, time slipped by and nothing got done with this.
> 
> That's too bad and given no other choice I can live with not having
> acceleration, but I'm curious as to what state it's in and if there's
> anything I can do to improve it.  Are there docs that we can get?  (I
> remember some crap with Trident a few years ago but thought it was
> cleared up.)  Is the XP4 different enough from the other CyberbladeXP
> chips that the code in xp_accel.c is useless, or could someone make
> some tweaks and add some conditionals to get even basic acceleration
> working?  (I think just screen->screen copies would help out
> significantly, as font display seems fast enough currently.)
> 
> Do you think the video overlay problem
> (https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=736) related to this?
> Or is that simply an unrelated bug?
 
It's unrelated. The video engine is completely separate from the 2D
accelerator.

> I'm willing to invest my time and perhaps a portion of my budget into
> this.  Is there anything at all I can do?

You could try hacking on the xp_accel.c file, and see what does or
doesn't work.

Alan.