--- Ely Levy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If it's like you say why not pick up the glove and > create a tree for it? > orginize a tree with a workplan I'm sure most people would be happy to > contribute, I know I would.
The work is already underway: mesa-solo is here: http://mesa3d.sourceforge.net/fbdev-dri.html xserver is here: http://www.freedesktop.org/Software/xserver glitx is here: http://www.freedesktop.org/Software/glitz mesa-solo - provides a standalone OpenGL environment without the need for X. mesa-solo has 3D hardware acceleration for the same cards as DRI. For non-3D cards it uses software mesa to write to the framebuffer. xserver - keithp's next generation X server. It know about things like alpha blending natively. glitz - an implementation of the Cairo API on OpenGL. Glitz has also implemented the X render engine in OpenGL. keithp is in the middle of adding the the OpenGL render engine to xserver. The basic idea is, you start with a standalone OpenGL stack. OpenGL is a high level API with lots of room for future hardware improvement. The OpenGL stack may either be the freedesktop one or one from Nvidia/ATI. On top of that runs xserver. xserver does all of it's drawing via OpenGL. This means everything will be accelerated. Remote X, xft, etc are still there - xserver is just a variation of XFree86 with XAA removed. xlib still works, xserver just uses OpenGL to do the drawing. Cario/Glitz is the next layer. xserver exposes the OpenGL layer in the same way DRI works. Glitz is written to use OpenGL in a fully accelerated, direct rendered environment. It will also work remotely. ===== Jon Smirl [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Friends. Fun. Try the all-new Yahoo! Messenger. http://messenger.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the new InstallShield X. >From Windows to Linux, servers to mobile, InstallShield X is the one installation-authoring solution that does it all. Learn more and evaluate today! http://www.installshield.com/Dev2Dev/0504 -- _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
