How does the Intel/EXA driver accalerate AA trapezoids?

Clemens Eisserer linuxhippy at gmail.com
Fri Feb 15 07:03:56 PST 2008


Hi again,

> The trapezoid is rendered in software and uploaded, then compositing of
>  it is done in hardware.  For 965 we want to do the trap rendering in
>  hardware, but it hasn't made it to the top of the TODO list yet.  For
>  945 it looks prohibitively difficult to do in hardware.
Ah, so it accalerates it like the proprietary Nvidia rdivers which
currently do the same (but also said that they are looking for ways to
do it better).
I have a 945 - sad to hear its not powerful enough to do this step in
hardware :-/

Thanks for clearification, lg Clemens



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