Full EXA Composite For R300-500 GPUs

Posted by Michael Larabel on March 18, 2008

Alex Deucher has been working on delivering full EXA Composite support for the Radeon driver and today the first bits of this work are available via his personal git repository. The full EXA Composite not only covers the R300 and R400 generations, but it already supports the Radeon X1000 (R500) graphics cards! In Alex's blog post he mentions that some blend combinations still need to be debugged, but the R300/400 support in general is pretty solid. For the R500 support, full EXA compositing is working for some graphics cards but not others. For those interested in trying out this latest Radeon work, check out the r3xx-render branch (well, until it gets merged to master). On the other side of the table, currently the RadeonHD driver lacks full EXA Composite support.

Discuss this article in our forums, IRC channel, or email the author. You can also follow our content via RSS and on social networks like Facebook, Identi.ca, and Twitter (@Phoronix and @MichaelLarabel). Subscribe to Phoronix Premium to view our content without advertisements, view entire articles on a single page, and experience other benefits.
Latest Hardware Reviews
  1. Sumo Lounge Emperor
  2. Gallium3D Continues Improving OpenGL For Older Radeon GPUs
  3. 15-Way Open vs. Closed Source NVIDIA/AMD Linux GPU Comparison
  4. Nouveau vs. NVIDIA Linux Comparison Shows Shortcomings
Latest Software Articles
  1. The Cost Of Ubuntu Disk Encryption
  2. Btrfs vs. EXT4 vs. XFS vs. F2FS On Linux 3.10
  3. AMD Radeon R600 GPU LLVM 3.3 Back-End Testing
  4. F2FS File-System Shows Regressions On Linux 3.10
Latest Linux News
  1. QEMU 1.5 Supports VGA Passthrough, Better USB 3.0
  2. Handbrake 0.9.9 Supports OpenCL Offloading
  3. Freedreno Gallium3D Now Banging The Adreno A3XX
  4. Jolla Announces Their First Phone
  5. Mageia 3 Released, Still Using Legacy GRUB
  6. NetBSD 6.1 Brings In More Features
  7. Using Six Monitors With AMD's Open-Source Linux Driver
  8. Benchmarking The Intel P-State, CPUfreq Changes
  9. FreeBSD Still Working On Next-Gen Package Manager
  10. DNF Still Advancing As Experimental Yum For Fedora
  11. Logitech Begins Supporting Linux Users
Latest Forum Talk
  1. Mageia 3 Released, Still Using Legacy GRUB
  2. Ubuntu To Look At Replacing Firefox With Chromium
  3. FreeBSD Still Working On Next-Gen Package Manager
  4. Intel Commits More Mesa Performance Optimizations
  5. OpenSUSE Considers Replacing LXDE With E17
  6. QEMU 1.5 Supports VGA Passthrough, Better USB 3.0
  1. Computers
  2. Display Drivers
  3. Graphics Cards
  4. Motherboards
  5. Peripherals
  6. Processors
  7. Software
  8. Operating Systems
  9. All Articles
  1. Linux Benchmarking
  2. OpenBenchmarking.org
  3. Phoronix Test Suite