Acceleration Architectures, state of the art. [LWN.net]

Acceleration Architectures, state of the art.

Posted Feb 28, 2009 12:53 UTC (Sat) by daenzer (✭ supporter ✭, #7050)
In reply to: Acceleration Architectures, state of the art. by dbnichol
Parent article: FOSDEM09: RandR 1.3 and multimedia processing extensions for X

> On the other hand, UXA is used by the intel driver to play nice with GEM
> and KMS. It started as a straight clone of EXA, though. I don't know if
> the UXA features can be ported back to EXA in the server. You'd probably
> have to ask keithp or anholt.

And take their answers with a big grain of salt... There's nothing to be
ported back, really. UXA basically just removes the EXA code the intel
driver doesn't need. However, it could 'play nice with GEM and KMS' (i.e.
use buffer objects for pixmap storage) in pretty much the same way with EXA,
and the code that was removed would be inactive.

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