Okay, that's cool then, I just know that I've seen people using DRI, but if you say it's not many people, I trust you. Maybe I'll join the DRI mailing list and bother them every once in a while to see that GLX 1.3 gets implemented. :)
By the way, do you know which drivers the Java Desktop uses by default? If it uses DRI, maybe Sun could pay some people to implement 1.3 for them :)
-Keith
Chris Campbell wrote:
Hi Keith,
Are there any plans for partial support for older GLX versions? In my experience it seems that most people use the dri.sf.net drivers, but I might be wrong.
We chose GLX 1.3 as a baseline after carefully reviewing the present-day offerings from the major graphics vendors for Linux and Solaris (Nvidia, ATI, and Sun). From what we've seen, the number of folks running the DRI drivers is relatively low, compared to the others I mentioned. We had hoped that the DRI project would move up to GLX 1.3 by the time Tiger ships, but as we've seen from their mailing list, it looks like they've fallen behind. Hopefully they'll pick up some more steam in the coming months.
At this point, it doesn't make sense for us to take a step backwards to GLX 1.2 just to support a small (bleeding edge) subset of the Linux community. GLX 1.3 offers us a more modern and robust API, and the performance benefits of the OGL-based Java 2D pipeline would be greatly diminished if we used GLX 1.2 as a baseline.
Thanks, Chris
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