Xglamo moving to Xorg architecture (was: The forbidden topic: Glamo OpenGL)

Graeme Gregory graeme at openmoko.org
Fri Nov 21 19:10:38 CET 2008


On Fri, 2008-11-21 at 19:36 +0200, Timo Jyrinki wrote:
> 2008/11/21 Graeme Gregory <graeme at openmoko.org>:
> > I am currently trying to make sense of the RandR stuff. Seems
> > exceedingly over complex on Xorg due to XAA :-(
> 
> XAA is mostly obsolete with current X.org, so it should probably be
> forgotten in favor of EXA? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EXA
> 
This I know, but it seems Xorg drivers still need to work within
the constraints of XAA even if its not used. One of them being
the stride of a screen cannot alter on rotation.

Either that or I'm missing some docs/understanding

Graeme





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