Re: Why run xserver on the OpenGL API?

Around 12 o'clock on Nov 25, "Kendall Bennett" wrote:

> There is also no reason why you cannot make the existing 2D API's work on 
> top of the new back end 3D rendering engine as well. Choice of the API 
> you want to use is good, as long as the back end implementation does not 
> need to be different (one of the primary reasons our SNAP drivers work so 
> well; the back end is identical no matter whether you are using it for 
> Windows, OS/2 or Linux).

I thought that was implicit in the plan to write a GL backend for the
existing X server rendering infrastructure.  The idea is that all core X
and Render acceleration would be done with GL function calls, and that for
ease of porting the existing code, a dumb frame buffer could be accessed
where necessary.

Not that the core graphics need a lot of acceleration these days; I get by 
quite nicely with only copyarea and fillrectangles accelerated at all.  
Render, on the other hand, could really benefit from most of the GL pixel 
pipeline...

-keith