Around 10 o'clock on Oct 23, Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote:

> I'd like to do this.
> Where abouts would it go in -
> I guess that this would be another directory alongside
>       programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/xf24_32bp
> and
>       programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/xf8_32bpp ?

As this module should be independent of the XFree86 driver interfaces, it 
should live in Xserver/miext instead, alongside the shadow frame buffer 
code.

> Where should I look to generate the list of functions which would need to
> be implemented ?

The usual suspects can be found in any rendering wrapping module; software 
cursors, backing store and shadow frame buffer are three such examples.

> Are we just going for 8bit pseudocolor on 24 bit directcolor,
> or is it worth trying 5bit pseudo on 15/16 bit directcolour too ?

I'm not sure 5-bit is interesting; many legacy apps assume 256 writable 
colormap entries or they'd work with a 5x5x5 cube preallocated by Render.

> Can anyone point me at instructions for testing an X server,
> once I thing I have it working ? I know about

I've just updated the Makefile for building the X test suite documentation;
that's found in the test module (test/xsuite/xtest/doc).  Perhaps those 
would be of interest?  In particular, the 'pt -i' command runs a single 
test from the current directory (one of xsuite/xtest/tset/*/*).

Keith Packard        XFree86 Core Team        HP Cambridge Research Lab


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