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List:       freedesktop-xorg
Subject:    Re: Xgl/Xegl future?
From:       Alan Cox <alan () lxorguk ! ukuu ! org ! uk>
Date:       2005-08-28 22:55:28
Message-ID: 1125269728.11018.14.camel () localhost ! localdomain
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On Sul, 2005-08-28 at 14:08 -0700, Eric Anholt wrote:
> Well, nearly every driver currently in X.Org uses the overlay scaler.
> MGA is the exception I know of, and that's just an option.  I would like
> to see us use the texture scaler to get the job done where possible,
> since it lets us play nice with composite and lets you have multiple
> hardware-accelerated YUV videos put on the screen at a time.

A lot of the overlay hardware also does de-lace, flicker fixing and
synchronized double buffering. There are good reasons to expose both in
a meaningful way. 

Alan


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