Re: Re: FW: XFree86 future

Torgeir Veimo <[email protected]> 25 Mar 2003 12:36:10 +0000

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On Tue, 2003-03-25 at 12:29, Michel DÃ¤nzer wrote:
> On Son, 2003-03-23 at 19:49, Havoc Pennington wrote: 

> > What makes it harder in the X11 case vs. the 3D/direct-rendering case
> > is not network protocol vs. direct-rendering, but the fact that
> > multiple applications are involved that need to be synchronized.  If
> > you are doing direct rendering, you still need some way to do that.
> 
> Absolutely, and I'd argue it's easier and cleaner in a central server
> than with several direct rendering clients.

Virtualizing access to the gfx hardware has been done before. Even then
there is probably a hardware abstraction layer above that which handles
drawing primitives, eg. something akind of RENDER.

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Torgeir Veimo <[email protected]>