On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 6:36 AM, Benoit Jacob <jacob.benoi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Because of the way it ended being used in many places, SurfaceDescriptor was > involved in maybe half of the b2g 1.2 blocking (koi+) graphics crashes that > we went over over the past few months. > > During the Paris work week we had extended sessions (I think they totalled > about 10 hours) about what a "right" platform-generic surface type would be, > and how they would be passed around. Obviously, it would be > reference-counted, but we worked out the details, and you can see the > results of these sessions here: > > https://wiki.mozilla.org/Platform/GFX/Surfaces > > In a nutshell, there is a near-term-but-not-immediately-trivial plan to get > such a "right" surface type, and it would come from unifying the existing > TextureClient and TextureHost classes. > [...] > Hope that answers some of your questions / eases some of your concerns
It does! Thanks for the info. Nick _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
