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Hello,
On Sep 13, 2010, at 7:28 PM, Alex Deucher wrote:
On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 6:55 PM, Michael <[email protected]> wrote:
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Hello,
On Sep 13, 2010, at 6:41 PM, Matt Dew wrote:
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I understand the urge to slim the server down, but deprecating XAA
isn't the way to do this.
In order to deprecate something, there needs to be a replacement.
As
others in this thread have stated, there is hardware for which
EXA is
slower than XAA or does not work all together. So EXA is not a 1:1
replacement for XAA.
I can't see why being able to remove XAA (which would be the
intended
goal of deprecating it) would help anything anyway. The xserver can
already be easily built without XAA.
Agreed that a replacement is needed before removing anything. I
think
we're all in agreement there.
I'm not necessarily arguing for dumping XAA (I don't know enough for
that, hence my questions.). I'm just from the school of thought
that
if two things are redundant, get rid of one of them. Less
maintenance,
confusion, duplicated effort, ... If EXA could be made to be
performant on that hardware, I think getting rid of XAA would be a
good idea, for the pre-mentioned reasons. If it can't, then end of
discussion for me.
This would be a hell of a lot easier if EXA had an optional XAA-
like VRAM
allocator which doesn't insist on variable strides. With that alone
converting most drivers would be almost trivial.
Well, part of the reason for EXA was to target a certain base level of
hardware to better match the requirements of modern desktops. Why add
support for old more limited hardware to EXA when we have XAA already?
That would be a valid argument if XAA wasn't deliberately broken and
left to bitrot.
have fun
Michael
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