[cairo] Re: Better coverage from cairo performance suite (and some results)

Vladimir Vukicevic vladimir at pobox.com
Sat Oct 21 13:09:55 PDT 2006


----- Federico Mena Quintero <federico at ximian.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-10-06 at 21:26 -0700, Keith Packard wrote:
> 
> > xaa can only accelerate a single depth, that matching the root
> window
> > depth. Everything else falls back to software. KAA (and EXA, by
> > extension) use the hardware for all formats.
> 
> I should probably RTFwebsites, but I find the number of acceleration
> architectures, server versions, and server forks very confusing.
> 
> Is there a more or less canonical list of
> 
> - Which distro ships which server
> 
> - Which server uses which acceleration architecture
> 
> - When are the new accel architectures expected to land in distros
> 
> - Which drivers support which operations in hardware
> 
> - etc?

I would also be extremely interested in having this list as well -- also I'd add:

- which RENDER bugs are present in each distro's X server or driver accel impl (specifically I'm thinking of the bug with REPEAT, which I worked around in mozilla -- but I had to undo that workaround because it was breaking some things).

    - Vlad



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