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Re: Wunderkind?
by Nicolai Haehnle on Tuesday 28/Jun/2005, @08:18

When he says "port", he really means switch some function calls around so it uses the Exa framework instead of XAA. Only the most basic primitive will actually be accelerated in hardware (and even then, only if the driver already accelerated them before).

Porting a driver to Exa appears to be really simple, due to clever design by Zack, so porting a driver is mostly a formality. Still, you obviously need to have the hardware and do testing on it (which is usually the far more time-consuming part in driver development if it's to be done right).

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