Mailinglist Archive: radeonhd (307 mails)

[manuel gysin <gwydion.dot@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Clemens and Matthias,

> Hi,
>
> Great that you are interested in enhancing the R600 driver :)
>
> Well, XAA has more or less been declared as "dead", intel plans for a
> long time to get rid of it.
> I would not recommend putting effort into it, its just not well suited
> for todays requirements.
>
> Two other interesting (but I guess hard parts) but be Gradient and
> Trapezoid accaleration for EXA ;)
>
> Thanks again for working on it, Clemens

Ok, then it's wasted time to start with XAA.
I think my time is better used when helping in some oss project then do 
some other senseless stuff. ;-)
And I'm totally pissed of about closed source drivers since years.

> XAA is. Read Alex r6xx-r7xx-support branch, it contains EXA
> acceleration, or better, a start of EXA. That will give you some ideas.
>
> I'll be working on Mesa next week again, this week I have to prepare two
> FOSDEM talks...

Ok, I think I speak with Alex. Maybe he can give me some tasks.
Have fun on FOSDEM (I have no time to go there :/)!

Kind regards
Manuel
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