Between Fedora 12 and 13 [LWN.net]

Between Fedora 12 and 13

Posted Dec 1, 2009 17:59 UTC (Tue) by drag (subscriber, #31333)
In reply to: Between Fedora 12 and 13 by roblucid
Parent article: Between Fedora 12 and 13

Your right, of course.

Modern (or at least future) video cards accelerate 2D operations through the
3D pipelines. From the programmer's perspective they can still be
programming GDI or EXA or XRender, but from the driver's perspective you'll
still need to support 3D operations and have a unified memory management
scheme for all the different APIs you want to support.

What I was merely talking about is the 2D processor engines that you
traditionally targeted through 2D drivers like 'nv' or other X.org DDX stuff
is going away.

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