Re: FW: XFree86 future

Around 19 o'clock on Mar 23, Mark Vojkovich wrote:

> The problem I forsee with
> Render's implementation (assuming there is one or one planned),
> is that Render has been trying to specify pixel-exact rendering.
> That typically excludes hardware rendering.

Render provides both exact an inexact modes for each relevant rendering 
operation (scaling, polygon filling, etc).  That's one of the big requests 
made by the OpenGL folks that participated in the Render design.

The scaling operation permits several hardware-specific 'filtering' modes 
so that you can select among the various kinds of sampling present in the 
hardware.  It also allows the hardware to map 'generic' names to relevant 
actual filters so that applications can ask for 'default' and get 
something presentable but not horribly slow.

-keith