Re: State of Linux graphics

2005-08-31 Thread Ian Romanick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Allen Akin wrote: > I believe we're doing well with layered implementation strategies like > Xgl and Glitz. Where we might do better is in (1) extending OpenGL to > provide missing functionality, rather than creating peer low-level APIs; > (2) expres

Re: State of Linux graphics

2005-08-31 Thread Ian Romanick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Allen Akin wrote: > On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 02:06:54PM -0700, Keith Packard wrote: > | > | ...So far, 3D driver work has proceeded almost entirely on the > | newest documented hardware that people could get. Going back and > | spending months

Re: State of Linux graphics

2005-09-01 Thread Ian Romanick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Brian Paul wrote: > It's other (non-orientation) texture state I had in mind: > > - the texel format (OpenGL has over 30 possible texture formats). > - texture size and borders > - the filtering mode (linear, nearest, etc) > - coordinate wrap mode (c

Re: [PATCH 01/23] introduce drm_zalloc as a drm_alloc + memset replacement

2007-08-28 Thread Ian Romanick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Instead of adding drm_zalloc, why not just use drm_calloc? At the very least just make drm_zalloc a macro that calls drm_calloc. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFG1H5pX1gOwKyEAw8RAuXrAJ9W+Oyaimcedg0LdDqwqfMgX9Gl2

Re: [PATCH] VIA and SiS AGP chipsets are x86-only

2006-12-05 Thread Ian Romanick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Matthew Wilcox wrote: > There's no point in troubling the Alpha, IA-64, PowerPC and PARISC > people with SiS and VIA options. Andrew thinks it helps find bugs, > but there's no evidence of that. > > Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >

Re: [PATCH] VIA and SiS AGP chipsets are x86-only

2006-12-06 Thread Ian Romanick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Tue, 2006-12-05 at 20:40 -0700, Matthew Wilcox wrote: >> On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 02:56:41PM -0800, Ian Romanick wrote: >>> I don't know about SiS, but this is certainly *not* true for Via. The

Re: Sched - graphic smoothness under load - cfs-v13 sd-0.48

2007-05-23 Thread Ian Romanick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Xavier Bestel wrote: > On Wed, 2007-05-23 at 07:23 +0200, Michael Gerdau wrote: >> For me the huge difference you have for sd to the others increases the >> likelyhood the glxgears benchmark does not measure scheduling of graphic >> but something else.