http://cgit.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/commit/?id=8d789be03430b80e0ba2fef19d56dd0b8e699ea2
There's the swrast commit. Feel free to start porting :) On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 7:32 AM, Johannes Schmid <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ gnome-shell-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list
