Attachment 3126 Details for Bug 4091 – xaa-final-doc-updates-1.patch

[patch] xaa-final-doc-updates-1.patch

xaa-final-doc-updates-1.patch (text/plain), 1.75 KB, created by Adam Jackson on 2005-08-30 12:32:02 UTC

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Created: 2005-08-30 12:32:02 UTC

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> XAA.HOWTO |   14 +++++++++-----
> 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
>Index: XAA.HOWTO
>===================================================================
>RCS file: /cvs/xorg/xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/xaa/XAA.HOWTO,v
>retrieving revision 1.2
>diff -u -d -r1.2 XAA.HOWTO
>--- XAA.HOWTO	23 Apr 2004 19:54:16 -0000	1.2
>+++ XAA.HOWTO	30 Aug 2005 19:31:30 -0000
>@@ -29,7 +29,11 @@
> /********************************************************************/
> 
> 0) WHAT IS XAA
>-	
>+
>+   NOTE: XAA IS DEPRECATED.  New drivers should be written to the EXA
>+acceleration architecture, and old drivers should be converted to EXA
>+as possible.  See the documentation under hw/xfree86/exa for details.
>+
>    XAA (the XFree86 Acceleration Architecture) is a device dependent
> layer that encapsulates the unaccelerated framebuffer rendering layer,
> intercepting rendering commands sent to it from higher levels of the
>@@ -55,10 +59,10 @@
>    To Initialize the XAA layer, the driver should allocate an XAAInfoRec
> via XAACreateInfoRec(), fill it out as described in this document
> and pass it to XAAInit().  XAAInit() must be called _after_ the 
>-framebuffer initialization (usually cfb?ScreenInit or similar) since 
>-it is "wrapping" that layer.  XAAInit() should be called _before_ the 
>-cursor initialization (usually miDCInitialize) since the cursor
>-layer needs to "wrap" all the rendering code including XAA.
>+framebuffer initialization (usually fbScreenInit) since it is "wrapping"
>+that layer.  XAAInit() should be called _before_ the cursor
>+initialization (usually miDCInitialize) since the cursor layer needs to
>+"wrap" all the rendering code including XAA.
> 
>    When shutting down, the driver should free the XAAInfoRec
> structure in its CloseScreen function via XAADestroyInfoRec().

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