On Tue, 2009-02-17 at 13:58 -0800, Keith Packard wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-02-17 at 10:22 +0100, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> 
> >       * Keep it enabled by default and document in the release notes to
> >         try disabling it when encountering corruption such as the one
> >         described in the above bug reports.
> >       * Leave it disabled by default again and document in the release
> >         notes that enabling it may improve performance with EXA but may
> >         also cause visual corruption in rare cases.
> 
> Correctness always wins; until it works without bugs, you can't turn it
> on by default.

Is it really that simple? People are still finding bugs in XAA, so do we
disable that by default as well for all drivers that still use it?
(Heck, people are even still finding rendering correctness bugs in
fb/pixman...)


-- 
Earthling Michel Dänzer           |                http://www.vmware.com
Libre software enthusiast         |          Debian, X and DRI developer
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