On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 08:43:31AM -0700, Jens Owen wrote:
Possible Future: Mesa Tree -----+--> XFree86 Tree - API Focus | - X/3D Integration - 3D HW Focus | - Complete Window System Focus | +--> Alternate X Tree | - Duplicate X/3D Integration | - Possibly more 3D developer | friendly, who knows? | +--> FBDev Subset | - FBDev/3D Integration | - Embedded Focus | +--> DirectFB | - DFB/3D Integration V Other Window Systems: DirectFB, WGL, AGL and new ones that haven't been invented, yet.
Are you perhaps envisioning pushing Mesa to evolve into something like the nvidia UDA API? Where there is suddenly a single, unified cross-hardware/OS platform for all 3d-accel hardware access to program to?
I think that could potentially be a very interesting idea. But it would probably double the Mesa codebase size, most likely, and so should be managed VEEEEERY carefully. Certainly doable, but it should be Done Right(tm).
That's not a stated plan, afaik, but nobody would want to rule out such an idea.
And, actually it wouldn't increase the code size of Mesa at all, as Mesa already runs on many different platforms & is basically os-neutral. The os-dependant parts tend to be the window system bindings and of course the kernel components of the actual drivers.
Keith
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