In computing

Computing

Computing is usually defined as the activity of using and improving computer hardware and software. It is the computer-specific part of information technology...

, UXA is the reimplementation of the EXA

EXA

In computing, EXA is a graphics acceleration architecture of the X.Org Server designed to replace XAA and to make the XRender extension more usable, with only minor changes needed to adapt XFree86 video drivers written to use XAA; it was designed by Zack Rusin and announced at LinuxTag 2005 and...

 graphics acceleration architecture of the X.Org Server

X.Org Server

X.Org Server refers to the X server release packages stewarded by the X.Org Foundation,which is hosted by freedesktop.org, and grants...

 developed by Intel. Its major difference with EXA is the use of GEM

Graphics Execution Manager

The Graphics Execution Manager is a computer software system developed by Intel to do memory management for device drivers for graphics chipsets....

, replacing Translation Table Maps. In February 2009 it became clear that UXA would not be merged back into EXA.

Implementations

In May 2009 it was announced that Ubuntu

Ubuntu (operating system)

Ubuntu is a computer operating system based on the Debian Linux distribution and distributed as free and open source software. It is named after the Southern African philosophy of Ubuntu...

 would migrate their graphics acceleration for the Ubuntu 9.10 release to UXA