[pgarr...@optusnet.com.au: Re: [RFC] page flipping/buffer swap for DRI2]

2009-02-16 Thread Peter John Garrone
- Forwarded message from Peter John Garrone - From: Peter John Garrone To: Jesse Barnes Subject: Re: [RFC] page flipping/buffer swap for DRI2 On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 04:44:08PM -0800, Jesse Barnes wrote: > On Friday, February 13, 2009 4:18 pm Peter John Garrone wrote: > > In

Re: [RFC] page flipping/buffer swap for DRI2

2009-02-13 Thread Jesse Barnes
On Friday, February 13, 2009 4:18 pm Peter John Garrone wrote: > In reply to Jesse Barnes post. > I'm not on top of the finer details, being a consumer rather than a > developer. I have the following queries: > > 1) Is the buffer flip to be synchronous in the hardware, or to be > implemented as a s

Re: [RFC] page flipping/buffer swap for DRI2

2009-02-13 Thread Peter John Garrone
In reply to Jesse Barnes post. I'm not on top of the finer details, being a consumer rather than a developer. I have the following queries: 1) Is the buffer flip to be synchronous in the hardware, or to be implemented as a software interrupt? 2) By fullscreen, do you mean covering one or all scre

[RFC] page flipping/buffer swap for DRI2

2009-02-11 Thread Jesse Barnes
Post early, post often, right? In the interest of getting a non-broken (i.e. non-tearing) GL stack w/DRI2 I've been working on making SwapBuffers use page flipping for full screen clients (like compositing managers). This saves a full screen blit so should be a little faster than the current c