On 2002.02.17 07:33 Philip Brown wrote: > FYI: For those people who saw my messages of a while ago, and believe > "Someone is working on a solaris port of DRI": > > I've given up on DRI, and have gone over to update utah-glx instead. > Heck, I've actually got the basic nv part WORKING under solaris. > Presumably, it will also work under *BSD as well. > > I find the utah-glx stuff much more coherent. There is a single > GLX module made, rather then multiple spots in the X server where dri > shows up. > [lib/GL/dri, lib/GL/mesa/dri, programs/Xserver/GL/dri, > programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/os-support/*/drm ] >
Utah-GLX is without doubt coherent in terms of simplicity, but not security. It's easier to pull out a new Utah-GLX driver or port to a different OS but in exchange of security and versatility. Users and potential developers should be made aware of this trade-off, more specifically what is stated in http://utah-glx.sourceforge.net/docs/direct.txt . > So for anyone waiting for DRI support under solaris, or OSs other than > linux or the specific version of bsd supported by DRI: > I suggest you look at utah-glx instead. > > http://utah-glx.sourceforge.net/ > Regards, José Fonseca _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
