> I was a little suprised to see that the g200 worked that way - it seems
> incredibly low level, and somewhat at odds with the splash-blurb in the
> adds, which talks about support for strips & fans. But in any case, we
> are still left doing the area calculation per triangle ourselves.
My understanding, and I haven't dug into this carefully, is that the
G200 has something called the Warp engine. That does hardware triangle
setup. The problem is that they didn't release the specs to the Warp
engine. So, performance of the G200 under Linux is going to be seriously
degraded.
> Sounds like a pretty slow process... I imagine whatever issues we will
> have with glide3 they are also having trying to build their own OpenGL
> on top of it, but a quick glance at the docs doesn't show anything that
> improves on grDepthBias. I don't pin too much hope for a near term
> solution to this from 3dfx, given that we are still working with glide2.
Yes, it would take some time to turn around changes. Some of the Glide3
stuff is my fault. It hasn't been a high priority for me. I suspect that
once we create a "mesa extension" it'll be easier/faster to add stuff to
it. But, we'll tackle that when we get there. First, we need to have
Glide3, and then something to put in the extension. :-)
- |Daryll
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