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

[matthew green <mrg%eterna.com.au@localhost>]

> 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.

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


.mrg.