On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 01:23:24PM -0800, Ian Romanick wrote:
> Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> 
> >http://www.opengl.org/documentation/extensions/EXT_framebuffer_object.txt
> >
> >Has finally been posted.. hopefully it will be implemented in Mesa soon :)
> 
> The superbuffers working group worked on that extension for just over 2 
> years, and we're glad to be done! :)
>

Congratulations! This extensions looks very good. 
 
> Getting this implemented in software Mesa shouldn't be too painful, but 
> it isn't something that will happen over night.  Of course, patches are 
> always welcomed. ;)
>

Yep. 107 revisions of the spec tells something about the work needed :)
 
> Getting it implemented in the hardware accelerated drivers will likely 
> be a lot more painful.  I honestly don't expect to see ANY non-beta 
> drivers supporting it for at least a couple months.
> 

Hmm.. does this require any bigger / architechtural changes to DRI and/or X? 
memory
management?

-- Pasi Kärkkäinen
       
                                   ^
                                .     .
                                 Linux
                              /    -    \
                             Choice.of.the
                           .Next.Generation.


-------------------------------------------------------
The SF.Net email is sponsored by: Beat the post-holiday blues
Get a FREE limited edition SourceForge.net t-shirt from ThinkGeek.
It's fun and FREE -- well, almost....http://www.thinkgeek.com/sfshirt
--
_______________________________________________
Dri-devel mailing list
Dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel

Reply via email to