Re: Cooperative Linux

Jon Smirl <jonsmirl-/[email protected]> Tue, 4 May 2004 13:24:46 -0700 (PDT)
Newsgroups gmane.comp.freedesktop.xserver
Message-ID <[email protected]>
--- Nicolas Souchu <[email protected]> wrote:
> What would be the target of OpenGL in that case? Still DRI?
> Thus it's like saying Xserver will be on top of DRI... which is a bit
> strange to me.

The plan is to get xserver running on top of OpenGL. That way xserver will
benefit from the hardware acceleration of a 3D engine. Benchmarks from the Cairo
list show 3D mode to be about 100:1 faster than current X drawing. The xserver
copositing engine will also make good use of the 3D hardware.



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Jon Smirl
jonsmirl-/[email protected]


	
		
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