On Iau, 2005-01-06 at 18:36, Felix KÃhling wrote: > Hi all, > > has anyone ever considered using the video overlay for 3D page flipping? > It always bothered me that the page-flipping method used by the radeon > drivers is so complicated WRT 2D/3D interaction and it would even stop > working when (if?) we switch to allocating back buffers per-client. So I > thought, couldn't you use the video overlay to display the front buffer > and do page flipping by switching the video overlay between two front > buffers?
Video overlays are expensive. Its doubling the memory bandwidth or worse. It seems to make much more sense to have an Xaa stackable module that can issue Xaa requests to both buffers. ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by: Beat the post-holiday blues Get a FREE limited edition SourceForge.net t-shirt from ThinkGeek. It's fun and FREE -- well, almost....http://www.thinkgeek.com/sfshirt -- _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list Dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
