Re: xserver on OpenGL
Jon Smirl <jonsmirl-/[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.freedesktop.xserver |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
--- Keith Packard <[email protected]> wrote: > Remember that framebuffer access should largely be seens as an > implementation crutch while GL-based acceleration code is written. > Without that crutch, it will take a large amount of effort before *any* > thing appears on the screen. If you can provide direct access to the > underlying object buffers for each image, I can get the X server running > in a few hours. Then we can share the effort for migrating the X > operations to GL among many developers. A working X server is a lot > easier to hack on than a pile of non-functional code. Does the current X DRI environment (with pbuffers) provide a good enough platform for starting a conversion of xserver to the OpenGL API? ===== Jon Smirl jonsmirl-/[email protected] __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Free Pop-Up Blocker - Get it now http://companion.yahoo.com/