On Wed, 14 Aug 2002 18:46:38 +0400, Vadim Plessky wrote: >On Tuesday 13 August 2002 8:33 pm, Keith Packard wrote: >| 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. > >So, we are (still) limited to Matrox cards and (aprtially) NVIDIA? >What about ST Microelectronics Kyro II and Intel 815/845 (built-in into >chipsets)?
Let us be very clear that we all understand the question you asked. You did NOT ask which drivers support the RENDER extension. Rather, you specifically asked which drivers offer HARDWARE support for the RENDER extension. Those are very different questions. Almost all of the current crop of drivers support the RENDER extension. That means RENDER-based applications will work correctly. However, in all but a few cases, that support is implemented in high-performance software simulations. The primitives required by RENDER are rather specific, and there has not been a lot of time to figure out if the existing hardware (most of which was designed long before RENDER was conceived) can be wrapped around those requirements. The i815 is not a terribly sophisticated engine. I'm not sure it will do much better than the simulations. -- - Tim Roberts, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc. _______________________________________________ Render mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/render
