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.
Ely Levy System group Hebrew University Jerusalem Israel On Sun, 13 Jun 2004, Jon Smirl wrote: > --- Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sul, 2004-06-13 at 03:07, Jon Smirl wrote: > > > Why not help getting mesa-solo working so that we can move to X on top of > > > OpenGL? > > > > For one, in the two years that is going to take to bear fruit, we need a > > working X server. Two because mesa-solo isnt supported on most of > > the Xorg platforms. > > The Microsoft Longhorn UI is going to trounce Linux on the desktop if we don't > get to work on a response. Getting mesa-solo running everywhere wouldn't take > two years if more people would pitch in and quit arguing. Right now we should > have a working xserver/mesa-solo this summer, even sooner if there was more > help. > > I'm not sure if you mean platforms as in OS or platform as in cards, but > mesa-solo runs on the fbdev driver using software mesa. Between fbdev and the > accelerated drivers that covers all of the more common hardware. > > All of the pieces needed to get xserver running on mesa already exist; all we > need to do is pull everything together. xserver on GL is an architecture that > will be good for at least another ten years while the current XAA architecture > is close to the end of it's life. > > ===== > Jon Smirl > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Friends. Fun. Try the all-new Yahoo! Messenger. > http://messenger.yahoo.com/ > > _______________________________________________ > xorg mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg > ------------------------------------------------------- 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
