Hi Emmanuele! > as far as I know, llvmpipe doesn't support texture-from-pixmap, thus > making a compositor based on it fairly difficult. not impossible, just > unbearably slow. > > the same applies to Mesa swrast, which doesn't expose the required GLX > support.
Quoting from the Phoronix article[1] (not idea if this is correct): "Fortunately, Red Hat's David Airlie has now created a patch that adds the texture from pixmap (TFP) support to Mesa's software rasterizer (the "swrast" driver). The patch was published this morning on the mesa-dev mailing list. David mentions with this patch he can "run gnome-shell inside Xephyr slowly. I've no idea why I did it, and g-s has other rendering issues under swrast, but it might be useful to hook up llvmpipe later. I've no idea if I even want to commit it at this point." This patch is just a couple dozen lines of code and obviously isn't really beneficial quite yet but will hopefully be once hooked into LLVMpipe and the other GNOME Shell issues are addressed." So, I guess that's the point to start *if* somebody is interested. Regards, Johannes [1] http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=ODI3NQ _______________________________________________ gnome-shell-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list
