xf86-video-intel 2.5 release planning

Adam Jackson ajax at nwnk.net
Thu Jul 31 12:02:35 PDT 2008


On Thu, 2008-07-31 at 11:56 -0700, Jesse Barnes wrote:

> 6. No more XAA
> Back in 2.2, we made EXA the default acceleration architecture for the driver.  
> It obviously wasn't quite ready back then for everything people were throwing 
> at it, but OTOH it didn't have some of the fundamental shortcomings of XAA.  
> It looks like it's finally ready though, so assuming Carl has EXA performance 
> well in-hand, we should be able to delete the XAA code altogether (which will 
> be nice since it doesn't support several features and has bugs we don't want 
> to fix).

Does this include the (real) i810 XAA code?

I was poking at unifying i810 with the rest of the driver a while ago.
I assume you wouldn't mind patches if they showed up.

- ajax
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