On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 11:10:01PM +0200, Thomas Winischhofer wrote:
> M�ns Rullg�rd wrote:
> >Thomas Winischhofer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> >>>I've been trying to find specs for implementing hardware RENDER
> >>>support for my graphics card.  I have the specs for the card.  The
> >>>problem is that nobody seems to know what the various RENDER functions
> >>>in a driver are supposed to do, or what the structs represent.
> >>>Without this information, there's not much I can do.
> >>
> >>For a start, look at the mga or the sis driver. Both accelerate aa
> >>texture blitting for aa text with quite remarkable speed improvements.
> >
> >
> >I was hoping not to have to wade through hundreds of lines of chip
> >specific code and try to guess what they tell the chip to do.  If I
> >only knew exactly what the functions are supposed to do, and what the
> >supplied data is, it would be straight-forward to have my chip do the
> >work.
> 
> The parts that do RENDER accleration are by no means hundreds lines of 
> code. It plain two accelerator functions. I myself had no clue either 
> when I started, and implementing this took only one day.

Then why has not someone added documentation for it in the XAA.HOWTO
file, if it is that simple ?

Friendly,

Sven Luther
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