that' not correct: For n Rendering GPUs in m windows you need: n+m pipes.
OR: somebody who's passionate about that and sticks to Stefan arrange it so that the concept of Equalizer stays but the souce code is changed so it supports both ways. -------- Original-Nachricht -------- > Datum: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:29:41 +0100 > Von: "Mathias Heyer" <[email protected]> > An: "\'Equalizer Developer List\'" <[email protected]> > Betreff: Re: [eq-dev] Dependancies for building with VS2008? > Hi, > > "I try to get definitive information about off-screen support using > AMD_GPU_association for consumer cards." > > > AMD_gpu_association can ONLY render into offscreen FBOs, not into windows. > You are supposed to blit the result of a rendering (using an 'associated > context') into a window (bound to a second, unassociated context) by > wglBlitContextFramebufferAMD(). > > With the current means of equalizer, we'd need to create 2 pipes for each > GPU, one associated, rendering into the offscreen FBO and one > unassociated, > rendering into the window. Additionally, there needs to be another > compound, > blitting from FBO into the window, using wglBlitContextFramebufferAMD. > But I don't like this notion, since this would mean, the needed config > would > be hardware-dependent. It should be transparent to the user, if there are > Quadro's or ATI's in his machine. > > > Mathias > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [email protected] [mailto:eq-dev- > > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Christian Kehl > > Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2010 4:11 PM > > To: Equalizer Developer List > > Subject: Re: [eq-dev] Dependancies for building with VS2008? > > > > Thanks for the information. good to know that, although it's not > > supported, at least until HD4xxx. We'll see if it's done in series > above. > > Someone out there with an HD5xxx and willing to check for this extension > ? > > > > > > -------- Original-Nachricht -------- > > > Datum: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:32:01 +0100 > > > Von: Stefan Eilemann <[email protected]> > > > An: Equalizer Developer List <[email protected]> > > > Betreff: Re: [eq-dev] Dependancies for building with VS2008? > > > > > On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 9:04 AM, Stefan Eilemann <[email protected]> > > > wrote: > > > > I try to get definitive information about > > > > off-screen support using AMD_GPU_association for consumer cards. > > > > > > According to somebody at ATI the AMD_ extension works on both FireGL > > > and Radeon, and the AMDX_ is obsolete and will be phased out in future > > > drivers. > > > > > > > > > Cheers, > > > > > > Stefan. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > eq-dev mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > http://www.equalizergraphics.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/eq-dev > > > http://www.equalizergraphics.com > > > > -- > > GMX DSL: Internet, Telefon und Entertainment für nur 19,99 EUR/mtl.! > > http://portal.gmx.net/de/go/dsl02 > > > > _______________________________________________ > > eq-dev mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://www.equalizergraphics.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/eq-dev > > http://www.equalizergraphics.com > > > _______________________________________________ > eq-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.equalizergraphics.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/eq-dev > http://www.equalizergraphics.com -- GMX DSL: Internet, Telefon und Entertainment für nur 19,99 EUR/mtl.! http://portal.gmx.net/de/go/dsl02 _______________________________________________ eq-dev mailing list [email protected] http://www.equalizergraphics.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/eq-dev http://www.equalizergraphics.com
