Re: Sun Creator and XRender

On Sat, 15 Oct 2005, Michael wrote:

> since the sunffb driver doesn't support the XRender extension but the
> graphics processor supports alpha blending and a few other nice tricks
> I've been poking around a bit to add this sort of functionality. The
> problem seems to be that sunffb doesn't use xaa or the standard
> framebuffer manager. so I couldn't get the included render code to work.
> So my questions are:
> - is there a text somewhere describing how to add xrender functionality
> to a driver without using fbPictureInit() ?
> - is there some more comprehensive ffb documentation available
> somewhere? I think I know how alpha blending and so on is supposed to
> work ( from reading the mesa driver source ) but there are still a few
> more questions.

This has already been done in X.Org's repository and it is on my to-do-soon 
list to merge in.

Marc.

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