Revised DRI2 Enters Mesa, X Server

[ethana2]

Yeah, it's going to be awesome when all these sweet new things are fully implemented

[TechMage89]

Nifty. I hope this means we will have a fully modernized graphics architecture by sometime next year.

[KDesk]

This is grate!
Hopeful X.Org 7.5 comes in six months after X.Org 7.4

And the portions to go into the kernel, when are they going to be merged, in 2.6.28??

[grantek]

Oooh - as soon as radeonhd/fglrx starts working with this I might ditch my release-based Ubuntu 8.04 gaming partition for something more bloody-edge/developer friendly

[ethana2]

Yeah, you corrected the typo incorrectly.

Don't feel bad, just be sure to get some good sleep tonight..

[rbmorse]

Also the bit about Intel in the first para is backwards...they went from TTM to GEM.

[Michael]

typo: line 3; redundant 'though'
typo: line 4; 'from' should be 'to'

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Fixed, thanks. Was multitasking too much this afternoon

[ethana2]

typo: line 3; redundant 'though'
typo: line 4; 'from' should be 'to'

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[phoronix]

Phoronix: Revised DRI2 Enters Mesa, X Server

Earlier this month we shared that X.Org 7.4 will lose DRI2 support. Direct Rendering Infrastructure 2 (DRI2) was just conceived one year ago and X.Org 7.4 would have been the first release with this technology that allows for directed rendering to redirected windows...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=NjY4Mw