On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 05:29:56PM -0800, ext Keith Packard wrote: > > Ok, let's try to get a bit of protocol review, then look at the library > API, then the server internal APIs and finally the server > implementation. Most of the code already exists, so this shouldn't take > a terribly long time. > > I've cleaned up the protocol a bit, reducing the changes so that we've > got only one 'set' and one 'get' request, each of which do 'everything' > except deal with output properties. The separate requests to set and > query the sprite transforms are gone. > > For the library changes, I'd like to know is whether I should emulate > the new SetCrtcConfigs interface using old requests on old servers. That > would involve duplicating a bit of structure from the insides of the X > server, but would mean that applications could switch to the new > interface and not worry about preserving compatibility with the old. > > Here's a diff from 1.3.2 of just the protocol specification. Please see > if this looks reasonable from a protocol perspective.
So what about also allowing windows to use the scanout pixmaps as their backing pixmap? I'm mainly interested in something that would allow unredirected 32bpp windows on a 16bpp screen. -- Ville Syrjälä _______________________________________________ [email protected]: X.Org development Archives: http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel
