Re: Radeon XvMC (WAS Re: DRM and permanent SAREA)

[Dave A. <ai...@li...>]

> >
> > Eventually yes, but that VHA stuff sets a load of registers in indirect
> > buffer, fills up an indirect buffer and sends it the card... to do this
> > without indirect buffers would require a fair lot of sending commands
> > between blocks to make sure the card is back in a known state ...

I suppose I could do that if I did it properly.. my initial implementation
will be root only but I won't release it .. :-)

> The XvMC capable players out there needs 8 surfaces to run smoothly. At least
> xine does.

ahh crap ... need memory manager... I suppose I could do something like
the transition to 3d code to get memory.. don't think it'll work too well
though..

Dave.

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David Airlie, Software Engineer
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