Comment 188 for bug 217908

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Tom Jaeger (thjaeger) wrote : Re: [Bug 217908] Re: Pixellated Images in Firefox/Opera due to incorrect EXTEND_PAD implementation in several video drivers

Sebastien Bacher wrote:
> could you give the url to an upstream cairo discussion? there is no
> reason why we should ship distribution changes there which have not been
> discussed upstream, that creates extra work, bugs and political issues
>

This has been discussed several times, the last time here:

http://lists.cairographics.org/archives/cairo/2009-January/016320.html

Carl has stated that he intends to use XRender for
EXTEND_PAD/EXTEND_REFLECT eventually, see here:

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-intel/commit/?id=128223ee9b7880e640056475462eca9a88415492

The amount of work this should cause is minimal, as it's normal
procedure to maintain a few patches. In the unlikely event that this
might cause a bugs, it's easy to have the offending driver fall back to
software. There is certainly no potential for this to cause political
issues.