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authorMichel Dänzer <michel.daenzer@amd.com>2012-06-20 08:40:07 +0200
committerMichel Dänzer <michel@daenzer.net>2012-07-10 17:14:20 +0200
commite9edd2f5002c642b59f028b3ec076d604ae8ce9d (patch)
tree93c7536fb7292c7d042b6571c548f89e3d4945a3 /man
parent9eac8021f3d33a63156f9f5d43a220e88bb3f8db (diff)
Initial glamor support.
Enable at build time with --enable-glamor and runtime with Option "AccelMethod" "glamor" The most notable lack of functionality is XVideo. Use something like VDPAU for now. Signed-off-by: Michel Dänzer <michel.daenzer@amd.com>
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@@ -211,13 +211,6 @@ For example:
Option \*qZaphodHeads\*q \*qLVDS,VGA-0\*q
will assign xrandr outputs LVDS and VGA-0 to this instance of the driver.
.TP
-.BI "Option \*qEXAVSync\*q \*q" boolean \*q
-This option attempts to avoid tearing by stalling the engine until the display
-controller has passed the destination region. It reduces tearing at the cost
-of performance and has been known to cause instability on some chips.
-The default is
-.B off.
-.TP
.BI "Option \*qColorTiling\*q \*q" "boolean" \*q
The framebuffer can be addressed either in linear or tiled mode. Tiled mode can provide
significant performance benefits with 3D applications. Tiling will be disabled if the drm
@@ -241,6 +234,33 @@ The default value is
.B off
for R/RV6XX, R/RV7XX, RS780, RS880, EVERGREEN, and CAYMAN.
.TP
+.BI "Option \*qEnablePageFlip\*q \*q" boolean \*q
+Enable DRI2 page flipping. The default is
+.B on.
+Pageflipping is supported on all radeon hardware.
+.TP
+.BI "Option \*qAccelMethod\*q \*q" "string" \*q
+Chooses between available acceleration architectures. Valid values are
+.B EXA
+and
+.B glamor.
+The default is
+.B EXA.
+
+.PP
+The following driver
+.B Options
+are supported for
+.B EXA
+:
+.TP
+.BI "Option \*qEXAVSync\*q \*q" boolean \*q
+This option attempts to avoid tearing by stalling the engine until the display
+controller has passed the destination region. It reduces tearing at the cost
+of performance and has been known to cause instability on some chips.
+The default is
+.B off.
+.TP
.BI "Option \*qEXAPixmaps\*q \*q" boolean \*q
Under KMS, to avoid thrashing pixmaps in/out of VRAM on low memory cards,
we use a heuristic based on VRAM amount to determine whether to allow EXA
@@ -259,11 +279,6 @@ the framerate of applications that render frames at less than refresh rate.
.IP
The default value is
.B on.
-.TP
-.BI "Option \*qEnablePageFlip\*q \*q" boolean \*q
-Enable DRI2 page flipping. The default is
-.B on.
-Pageflipping is supported on all radeon hardware.
.SH TEXTURED VIDEO ATTRIBUTES
The driver supports the following X11 Xv attributes for Textured Video.