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xserver-xorg-video-ati package

  1. Bug #426582
  2. Comment #54

Comment 54 for bug 426582

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In , agd5f (agd5f) wrote :

(In reply to comment #10)
> What should be done? I'm interested, please.
>

We should just disable XAA render support.

(In reply to comment #11)
> In that understanding, will XAA "rot" even more in the future?
>
> What about EXA performance for our ancient r100 hardware? What will happen?
> Will EXA ever give the same performance as XAA on such hardware?
> And how come it does not yet? What are the obstacles?

It's mostly the lack of a decent memory manager, however, EXA support should preform pretty well with KMS since it provides a memory manager.