Around 18 o'clock on Aug 13, Vadim Plessky wrote:

> * what video drivers offer hardware support for RENDER ext.? // checked
> http://www.xfree86.org/4.2.0/RELNOTES2.html and found no asnwer for this

There is some support for Render acceleration in the Matrox driver and I 
believe the closed-source Nvidia driver has a bit.  Mark is currently 
designing a new XAA architecture which will include significant support 
for Render.

I'd like to see some work done on the Radeon driver as I have several of 
those around the house these days.  It isn't tremendously hard to get 
significant acceleration for many operations as Render provides an 
extremely narrow interface within the X server.

> * are there any plans to migrate API similar to libart [1], [2] to X or one
> of its extensions?

Carl Worth and I are busy building Xr which provides a relatively low-level
postscript-like API.  Xr is built on Xc which abstracts the compositing
operators so that we can (eventually) emulate all of that on the client 
side for old broken X servers.

I don't know enough about libart to say where things should be split apart,
but it should be possible to at least port the bottom end of libart to Xc.

Keith Packard        XFree86 Core Team        HP Cambridge Research Lab


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