Re: xfree

[Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com>]

On Tue, 11 Jan 2000, Sven LUTHER wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 10, 2000 at 02:10:55PM -0800, hughc wrote:
> > Is the accelerated XFree86 not available for Debian?  On my "Bronze" powerbook, X speed seems to be similar for the two of them...
> 
> the accelerated fbdev Xserver is accelerated for mach64, permedia2, imstt, and
> some other chips. the ct65550 is not one of them. But then it is only a
> question of having the docs, or searching a little in the XSVGA source, and
> adding the correct accel hooks. It is rather simple to implement, so people
> complaining about it better should write the accels themselves.

Right.

> Geert, what do you think about adding a 'skeleton' accel stuff, that you can
> copy and begin writting a new chipset accel ? Something similar than what i
> did for the pm2 driver at the begining, and that just outputs a comment when
> some specific accel hook is used. 

This is for 3.3.x?

It could be useful, depending on the chipset/driver you're working on. Note
that for the Mach64 driver, very little had to be changed. I suggest people to
take a look at the differences between the xfree86 and xfree68 directory.

I'm also a bit afraid of encouraging people to work on 3.3.x. 4.x (now 3.9.x)
is the future!

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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