On Tue, 4 Jun 2002, Keith Packard wrote:
>
> Around 14 o'clock on Jun 4, "Bian, Jonathan" wrote:
>
> > Thanks Keith. This makes a lot more sense to me now. Say if I go ahead
> > modifying the driver to expose depth 32 windows, do you think the current
> > XFree86 server is capable of handling this or some additional work is
> > required?
>
> Most of the current server is quite capable of handling depth 32 windows,
> I'm less sure of the XFree86 driver infrastructure which hasn't seen quite
> the level of hardware variety that the rest of the server has.
>
> You'll want to advertise both depth 24 and depth 32 windows, both at
> 32bpp.
>
> What we should probably do is make this a common feature of 32bpp hardware
> so that all of the drivers could advertise this.
>
I think maybe fewer 32bpp hardware can do destination alpha than
you realize.
Mark.
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