[ANNOUNCE] xf86-video-intel 2.6.2

Kristian Høgsberg krh at bitplanet.net
Sat Feb 28 06:33:51 PST 2009


On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 12:21 AM, Eric Anholt <eric at anholt.net> wrote:
...
> I think the problem here was the DRI2 tiling fix, which was great for
> the 915-class 3D performance regression but bad for 915-class 2D.  I've
> pushed a fix to master that should help.  If it does, I'll try to get a
> 2.6.3 out soon.
>
> commit 5bfd73cd31ba197a62f549cdbad1a1270b571027
> Author: Eric Anholt <eric at anholt.net>
> Date:   Fri Feb 27 19:09:49 2009 -0800
>
>    Only allocate pixmaps aligned for tiling when requested by DRI2 GetBuffers.
>
>    This saves massive quantities of memory on pre-965 since the DRI2 tiling
>    enable caused the minimum size of any pixmap to be 1MB.

Excellent, thanks Eric,
Kristian



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