man, 01.09.2003 kl. 16.28 skrev Klaus Gerlicher: > What it does is to emulate win32k.sys and videoprt.sys functionality > and hook the X server up to use any available driver for Win2K/XP. > > The display driver in windows is a two component model, one DLL and > one SYS. The DLL (display driver) links to kernel-mode GDI (win32k) > and calls EngXXX() functions inside it while the SYS (miniport) links > to the VideoPort (and unfortunately to other NTOSKRNL exports). While > the latter poses no difficulty since XP graphics drivers are supposed > to only use exports from win32k and videoprt, one of the main > difficulties will be to get the OpenGL ICD driver to run on top of > Linux since it can potentially call any user-mode export which would > require me to emulate all of the Windows user-mode environment. WINE > could probably help a lot in this respect.
Well, as an alternative, you could always write a Direct3D HAL driver for Mesa/DRI. That may get you better hardware compatibility (more vendors seem to have good Direct3D drivers than good OpenGL drivers), and the HAL is unlikely to use additional DLLs.
