On Wed, 4 Jun 2003, Brian Paul wrote:
> 
> Denis is proposing a new public DRI-based API, presumably for 
> fbdev-type environments.  Suppose this API became popular and other 
> parties wanted to implement drivers for it - drivers not based on 
> Mesa.  Is that conceivable?  If so, this new interface should not be 
> in src/mesa/

I would definitely call it "conceivable". Think of things like the WineX 
people who work on games. I assume that they translate DirectX into GL 
right now, but I could well imagine that they'd like to use DRI directly 
(or rather, indirectly through an DirectX-like API based on DRI).

                Linus



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