Re: Native mode handling

Keith Packard <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.freedesktop.xserver
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Around 23 o'clock on Nov 24, Keith Whitwell wrote:

> There's no need to wait for the rest of these tasks to be done before writing 
> effectively an OpenGL-targetted DDX - it could simply run in a window on any 
> GL-capable environment already existing.

Yes, we don't need the back-end changed to start building an X server on
GL, but what we do need is the ability to map window and pixmap buffers
into the X server address space so I can whack them directly.  With that in
place, I can target an X server on GL and slowly migrate to acceleration
where possible.

-keith
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