Re: Xorg vs. SPARC, was Re: "Hard memory error" on TurboSPARC equipped SS5 only when using NetBSD

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> 23 авг. 2015 г., в 22:51, matthew green <mrg%eterna.com.au@localhost> написал(а):
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>> One problem with some of them is that the only acceleration scheme
>> supported is XAA - EXA just assumes that the blitter supports offsets
>> and variable pitch, which isn't true on a lot of older hardware ( like
>> cg6 ) and XAA is supposed to be dropped, or was already. Since there is
>> other hardware with the same problem I'll just have to write a memory
>> manager for EXA that uses coordinates instead of offset & pitch, and
>> use that on cg6, crime and the like.

Thanks for pointing to this. I thought EXA is suitable for these prior.

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> FWIW, XAA was removed from xorg-server 1.13.  they're upto 1.17.2 now.

Matthew,

How do you folks deal with it in NetBSD? Just ship and old Xorg, or have XAA ported to newer one?

Thanks
Alex

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> .mrg.