Intel framebuffer compression & tiling update

[Jesse Barnes]

On Friday, August 17, 2007 11:30 am Lukas Hejtmanek wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 16, 2007 at 12:15:25PM -0700, Jesse Barnes wrote:
> > We've made some recent changes in the Intel git tree, enabling both
> > tiled rendering for the front buffer by default, and framebuffer
> > compression by default where available (currently, framebuffer
> > compression is only available on mobile devices, e.g. 915GM,
> > 965GM).
> >
> > Tiled frontbuffer rendering should bring us some modest performance
> > increases for certain operations (render acceleration specifically)
> > though I haven't done any measurements on it.
>
> Cool, glad to hear that. However, you should consider to commit the
> following patch to make tiling working with XAA.
>
> http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2007-August/027143.html

IIRC, Eric was planning to commit that once he had a little free time...

Jesse