Editing EXA (section)

{{About|the computer architecture|other uses|Exa (disambiguation)}}
{{short description|Graphics acceleration architecture}}
[[File:Linux graphics drivers 2D.svg|thumb|The XAA/EXA/UXA/SNA APIs are for the 2D graphics drivers inside the [[display server|X server]]. Note, that modern software uses [[Direct Rendering Manager|direct rendering]].]]
[[File:The Linux Graphics Stack and glamor.svg|thumb|[[Glamor (software)|Glamor]] obsoletes [[Device Dependent X|DDX]], here with [[XWayland]].]]
In [[computing]], '''EXA''' is a graphics acceleration architecture of the [[X.Org Server]] (see also [[X Window System]]) designed to replace XAA (the [[XFree86 Acceleration Architecture]])<ref>{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20051118095054/http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/1122 Summer coding]}} (Zack Rusin [[blog]] entry, 3 June 2005)</ref> and to make the [[X Rendering Extension|XRender]] extension more usable, with only minor changes needed to adapt obsolete [[XFree86]] video drivers written to use XAA; it was designed by [[Zack Rusin]] and announced at [[LinuxTag]] 2005<ref>[http://wiki.x.org/wiki/LinuxTagMeeting2005Zack Acceleration Architecture] (initial LinuxTag presentation by Zack Rusin)</ref> and first released with X.Org Server version 6.9/7.0.