xserver: Branch 'master'

[Adam Jackson]

On Tue, 2008-12-09 at 15:12 -0500, Peter Harris wrote:
> David Gerard wrote:
> > 2008/12/9 Adam Jackson <ajax at nwnk.net>:
> > 
> >> 1) vm86 mode is an x86ism.  It doesn't work in long mode, and almost
> >> certainly never will.  64-bit desktops are an increasingly large
> >> percentage of the world.  It's worth having only one set of bugs, for
> >> the same reason we don't ship cfb anymore.
> > 
> > 
> > Quick off-topic historical question - what is/was cfb?
> 
> The precursor to fb (along with mfb).

... which are, themselves, the code that implements software rendering
for core X (and if you're fb, Render too).

- ajax
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