* Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom-at-vmware-dot-com>
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-The XA state tracker is intended as a versioned interface to gallium for
+The XA gallium frontend is intended as a versioned interface to gallium for
xorg driver writers. Initially it's mostly based on Zack Rusin's
-composite / video work for the Xorg state tracker.
+composite / video work for the Xorg gallium frontend.
-The motivation behind this state tracker is that the Xorg state tracker has
+The motivation behind this gallium frontend is that the Xorg gallium frontend has
a number of interfaces to work with:
1) The Xorg sdk (versioned)
3) KMS modesetting (versioned)
4) Driver-private (hopefully versioned)
-Since Gallium3D is not versioned, the Xorg state tracker needs to be compiled
+Since Gallium3D is not versioned, the Xorg gallium frontend needs to be compiled
with Gallium, but it's really beneficial to be able to compile xorg drivers
standalone.
-Therefore the xa state tracker is intended to supply the following
+Therefore the xa gallium frontend is intended to supply the following
functionality:
1) Versioning.
The first user will be the vmwgfx xorg driver. When there are more users,
we need to be able to load the appropriate gallium pipe driver, and we
-should investigate sharing the loadig mechanism with the EGL state tracker.
+should investigate sharing the loadig mechanism with the EGL gallium frontend.
IMPORTANT:
Version compatibilities: