The attached patch (Debian/Ubuntu #092) from Dave S. Miller adds XAA support to the SunFFB driver.
Created attachment 1332 [details] [review] xaa for sunffb
Comment on attachment 1332 [details] [review] xaa for sunffb oh yeah, and it also uses the standard fb layer instead of mfb/cfb
/me squeals like a schoolgirl. only problem i have with it is the Render hooks are for the 6.7 API, so this won't give Render acceleration on 6.8. that's not a dealbreaker though. this also removes the RGB overlay support, and thus xf8_32wid is obsolete. this pleases me greatly.
Comment on attachment 1332 [details] [review] xaa for sunffb make roland less angry
applied to head for dlloader reasons, closing.
As a note, existing code in sunffb still uses cfb: E.g., look at ffb_bcopy.c.
I notice that with this patch installed, some applications --- xchat-2, mozilla, xclock (for example)--- use a different color scheme in some cases. I am not sure what is involved, and I am not sure it is wrong. It looks as if Xrender is implicated, but I don't know enough yet to say for sure.
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