Re: X on O2, this time for real

Michael <[email protected]> Sun, 22 Feb 2009 17:06:43 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.ports.sgimips
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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Hello,

On Feb 22, 2009, at 11:21 AM, Jared D. McNeill wrote:

> On Thu, 19 Feb 2009, Michael wrote:
>> I just commited the missing bits to make my CRIME driver work with  
>> native Xorg and in the process got rid of most (all?) the remaining  
>> glitches. This needs xf86-video-crime and libxaa.so.1 rebuilt.
>
> I've got it up and running on 5.0_RC2, it looks very nice!

Good :)

> One nit, 'glxgears' seems to trigger instant X server death. Might  
> not be easily avoidable if a GL screensaver starts up.

Hmm, I see that on sparc64 as well, I always thought that's another  
LP64 fuckup in Mesa.

> Apart from that performance seems very reasonable; I'm going to  
> spend the next couple of weeks building GNOME and we'll see how that  
> goes.


Syncing is still quite paranoid in some areas and we should use the  
MTE for simple screen-to-screen copies whenever possible. There should  
also be some room for optimization in xrender ops with masks  
( currently the mask is applied by software, doing it in hardware  
might be faster )

have fun
Michael

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