--- Ian Romanick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Alex Deucher wrote:
> 
> > I think in theory anyone (2D, 3D, CPU) can write to any BD it as
> long
> > as it is selected as the destination of that operation.  you can
> even
> > set one BD as a source and another as a destination I think. 
> Perhaps
> > Tim can clarify this.  
> 
> I would think you would have to be able to do that.  That way you
> could 
> render to an offscreen buffer in either tiled or lineary mode (i.e., 
> pbuffer) and copy to a linear framebuffer, tiled texture, etc.  I 
> suspect that may be what the "extra" BD is for.
> 
> 

Makes sense.  I know what might help clear this up. Alan, do you still
have a copy of the VIA/S3 source with pbuffer support? I'm curious as
to how they did it.

Alex

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