Re: [OpenJDK 2D-Dev] Questions about the X11 backend

2008-05-04 Thread Dmitri Trembovetski
Phil is right, the pipeline is still being used and is the fastest way to render on the framebuffers where it is used. As for the MITSHM ifdefs, I believe they are there for some licensees who might want to build the jdk w/o the MITSHM support. Although I would not hazard to guess

Re: [OpenJDK 2D-Dev] Questions about the X11 backend

2008-05-03 Thread Phil Race
Jim Graham wrote: Hi Clemens, 4.) Is DGA still used? I see quite a lot #ifdef's for missing MITSHM and DGA, but I wonder wether there are still systems without MITSHM, and the other way round for DGA. I believe it may no longer be in use, but Dmitri would have to answer to be sure. It was a

Re: [OpenJDK 2D-Dev] Questions about the X11 backend

2008-05-03 Thread Jim Graham
Hi Clemens, Clemens Eisserer wrote: Hello, I've (again) some questions about the X11 pipeline, just a few words would be really helpful: 1.) When looking at X11SurfaceData.c, there are several notes that this provides support for the software-loops to work directly on the native data, e.g.: