Reviewed-by: darcy, weijun

Summary: Introduce a new Interface to mark the Loops based pipes and initialise the loops accordingly.
Reviewed-by: flar, rkennke

Reviewed-by: prr, igor

Reviewed-by: prr

Summary: Forward port of the new Direct3D 9 rendering pipeline from 6u10. Also includes fixes for 6690659 6689025 6658398 6596234.
Reviewed-by: campbell, prr

Summary: Update copyright year for files that have been modified in 2008
Reviewed-by: ohair, tbell

Reviewed-by: igor, tdv

Summary: avoid using constructors when unique values are not necessary
Reviewed-by: volk, igor, peterz