I have a bunch of GX2 hardware that I can donate to the cause, if there are any developers in need. I only ask that the recipient cover shipping.
-Gadi On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 12:59 PM, Martin-Éric Racine <[email protected]> wrote: > 2012/7/21 Maarten Lankhorst <[email protected]>: >> Hey, >> >> I created a bunch of patches to make this driver compile against X1.13, >> but I have no idea if it actually works or not. Could you review and test >> please? >> >> X 1.13 did away with XAA and xf86Screens[] array, so I'm following the >> other drivers with compat-api.h. This allows compilation on x1.12 and x1.13. >> >> Cheers, >> Maarten > > Hey Maarten, > > Thank you very much for these patches! I myself was wondering what to > do about XAA today, so these came at the right time. I forwarded them > to the Geode X.org list so that everyone can review them. > > Please note that reverting the default acceleration for the GX > component to EXA won't work, because that component's EXA support is > buggy and outdated and, if you look at the upstream ChangeLog, you'll > notice that we had reverted to XAA as a kludge. None of the current > Geode developers seem to have access to GX hardware to test or > sufficient knowledge of the X.org internals to blindly fix the code, > so it has remained unfixed. > > Cheers! > Martin-Éric > _______________________________________________ > Xorg-driver-geode mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-driver-geode -- Gideon Romm Symbio Technologies | www.symbio-technologies.com (o) 914.576.1205 _______________________________________________ Xorg-driver-geode mailing list [email protected] http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-driver-geode
