VMware Releases The XA Gallium3D State Tracker

[phoronix]

Phoronix: VMware Releases The XA Gallium3D State Tracker

Hurra! A new Gallium3D state tracker was just released! But it's not the state tracker for OpenCL support, VDPAU or VA-API encoding/decoding, or anything else like that, but rather it's for something new: the XA State Tracker. This state tracker provides a new means of X.Org Acceleration (hence the "XA" name) and was developed by VMware...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=OTU3MQ

[FireBurn]

Care to tell us what ROP is?

Oh and it's Hurrah!

[allquixotic]

Care to tell us what ROP is?

Oh and it's Hurrah!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Render_Output_unit

[agd5f]

In this case it means Raster OPeration. See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bit_blit

[TechMage89]

It would be rather nice if we could get most of the X server display done on the GPU side. Then the Xserver transfer latency would be masked by the GPU upload latency, and everyone would be happy.

Edit: Also, has anyone talked about scan-converting traps/tris on the GPU for Xrender? It seems like this would be a significant win.

[pejakm]

XA state tracker got merged to master an hour ago.