cairo has now 16bit surfaces (was Fwd: rendering-cleanup)

[Tomeu Vizoso]

On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 18:14, Bernie Innocenti <bernie at codewiz.org> wrote:
> El Sat, 07-08-2010 a las 11:25 +0200, Tomeu Vizoso escribió:
>> > I'd expect well-written code to call cairo_surface_create_similar()
>> > whenever possible, but there might be hot-spots in our software stack
>> > that assume 32bpp.
>>
>> Have given a look to gtk+ and the xlib backend of cairo and seems to
>> me that we are safe. We just need Maltose to come quickly to XO-1 :)
>
> ... or backport the new cairo to Fedora 11. The Cairo ABI is supposed to
> be 100% backwards compatible, and I've successfully rebuilt 1.8 with no
> issues.

Sounds good, if that gives problems we can consider backporting just that patch.

If the small patch below is really what was needed, I'm going to feel
quite stupid:

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/cairo/commit/?id=022291be1cbddf4f6722f0bf76ebda6922780276

Regards,

Tomeu

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