Re: Sun Creator and XRender

On 10/16/05, Michael <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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.
>

DRI should work with xorg and mesa from cvs.

Alex

> have fun
> Michael
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