On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 04:36:33PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: >On Mer, 2003-07-16 at 15:08, Alex Deucher wrote: >> Support for HW accelerated indirect rendering is just a matter of >> restructuring some library interfaces so that GLX commands can get >> decoded and sent to the hardware rather than the sw renderer. It's in >> the pipeline for future development by the DRI folks, but if it were >> sponsored, it might happen sooner. there would be few if any changes >> needed in the hardware drivers. > >I never understood why XFree86 couldnt simply fork() a DRI client and >forward the stream ?
That approach has been suggested several times over the last couple of years. I haven't seen anything to say that it wouldn't be a feasible solution (looks like the obvious approach to me). I think it's just one of those things where nobody has needed it enough to actually implement it. David -- David Dawes Founder/committer/developer The XFree86 Project www.XFree86.org/~dawes ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: VM Ware With VMware you can run multiple operating systems on a single machine. WITHOUT REBOOTING! Mix Linux / Windows / Novell virtual machines at the same time. Free trial click here: http://www.vmware.com/wl/offer/345/0 _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
