On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 9:06 PM, Michael <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Sun, 16 Oct 2011 11:37:16 -0400
> Matt Turner <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> On Sat, Oct 15, 2011 at 6:20 PM, Mark Kettenis <[email protected]> 
>> wrote:
>> >> Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 20:26:18 -0700
>> >> From: Matt Kraai <[email protected]>
>> >>
>> >> > Also, that code is pretty much going to be made obsolete by Jeremy
>> >> > Huddleston's pci bus cleanup diff.  A better approach would be to
>> >> > convert the relevant drivers for loongson to use the new pci_io_xxx
>> >> > interfaces in libpciaccess instead of the raw in/out calls.
>> >>
>> >> My system uses the siliconmotion driver.  Would I need to start with
>> >> the instructions at
>> >>
>> >>  http://www.x.org/wiki/PciReworkHowto
>> >
>> > The work described there has already been done some time ago.
>> >
>> >> and then replace the raw in/out calls?
>> >
>> > Yes.  You'd want something like the (untested) diff below.  Should
>> > work if you have a recent enough libpciaccess.
>> >
>> > This raises the question how far one should go in providing backwards
>> > compatibility in the drivers for older libpciaccess libraries.  Do we
>> > need to worry about that at all?
>>
>> This particular hardware is really only XAA-capable to my knowledge.
>
> SM502 at least supports separate offsets and strides for source and 
> destination in blitter ops, so supporting EXA wouldn't be hard at all. There 
> seems to be some (limited) alpha blending support as well.

There is working EXA support already in the smi driver, but IIRC, the
3D hardware only has 1 texture unit, so it's not real useful for
composite.

Alex
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