Cool. Do you have any code that you can share for that? What does the file protocol look like?
> On Oct 12, 2016, at 7:17 PM, Jules Merit <jules.merit.eurocorp...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Yeah I prototyped draw3d with 9vx driver to host GPU on Linux system. MesajGL > if 9p file exists it supports mode of that name to transfer to gpu. It helps > if you have DooM handy to try writing it in rc. > > >> On Oct 12, 2016 4:06 PM, "Chris McGee" <newton...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hello All, >> >> I am looking at the specs for a GPU and was thinking about something >> analogous to /dev/draw, but for 3D graphics. Kind of like OpenGL except >> exposed as a filesystem so that it is network mountable and programmed in >> any language (even rc). >> >> Does anyone know if this kind of thing has been done before for plan 9? Any >> relevant papers or documents out there? >> >> My first thought involves representing elements in the graphics pipeline as >> files where you can write shader language code. Also a vertex file to write >> or read floating point vertex data. Maybe something more abstract would be >> better with scene graph and camera controls would be better match for a >> filesystem implementation. >> >> Thanks, >> Chris
