Re: Sun Creator and XRender

Hello,

> > 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.

Nice :)
So I'll stop reinventing the wheel, wait until you're done and then
import the result into NetBSD.
I wonder if they fixed DRI support too.

have fun
Michael

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