On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 4:04 PM, Colin Guthrie <cguthrie@(protected):
> Vincent Panel wrote:
>> which is supposed to be better, but in fact, is much slower than XAA.
>> That's the reason why Mandriva patched the "system" (xorg.conf) so
>> that XAA is used instead of EXA.
>
> No it's the reason we patched the source ;)

That's even better, I took part in the discussion but didn't remember
we did this, shame on me :)

I must admit I don't quite understand all that stuff in the intel bug
I refer to, but the point being some people seems to achieve pretty
similar performances with Fedora9 and (I quote) "drm-gem branch of the
current git + TTM-enabled vesa" whether they use EXA or XAA.