Re: Stepping outside the box with XAA drivers?

2003-03-01 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On 1 Mar 2003, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote: > MV> but XAA is an all or nothing thing. > > Could you please explain that? Do you mean that if you use XAA, you > can no longer wrap at the GCOps level? > You can wrap them, but if you are above XAA you MUST call down. XAA expects to see every rend

Re: Stepping outside the box with XAA drivers?

2003-03-01 Thread Juliusz Chroboczek
MV> but XAA is an all or nothing thing. Could you please explain that? Do you mean that if you use XAA, you can no longer wrap at the GCOps level? Juliusz ___ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.

Re: Stepping outside the box with XAA drivers?

2003-02-26 Thread Kendall Bennett
Mark Vojkovich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >There isn't anything "above the XAA layer". XAA lets drivers > hook things at 2 or 3 different levels. It's just not documented. > Watch the LOW, MID and GC level in xaaInitAccel.c. LOW is the > documented interface. XAA builds MID from LOW, build

Re: Stepping outside the box with XAA drivers?

2003-02-26 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Wed, 26 Feb 2003, Kendall Bennett wrote: > Hi Guys, > > I am trying to work out if it is possible to 'step outside the box' so to > speak when writing an XAA driver module for XFree86 4.0. Basically there > are some functions that we think we can implement faster if we hooked > them at a hi

Stepping outside the box with XAA drivers?

2003-02-26 Thread Kendall Bennett
Hi Guys, I am trying to work out if it is possible to 'step outside the box' so to speak when writing an XAA driver module for XFree86 4.0. Basically there are some functions that we think we can implement faster if we hooked them at a higher level in the X server than to implement them via jus