On Mon, 2006-02-06 at 11:18 -0700, Brian Paul wrote: > David Reveman wrote: > > Hey, > > > > here's the latest version of the texture from pixmap spec that Xgl will > > be supporting. It's not fully implemented in Xgl yet, just so much of it > > that you can get an indirect rendering compositing manager running using > > it. > > > > I've also attached a temporary glxproto.h patch and my latest patches to > > Mesa for client-side support. They should work with current CVS of Mesa. > > Hi David, > > I've been meaning to take a closer look at this extension for a long > time, and probably roll it into Mesa CVS. > > A few questions: > > 1. Normally the "EXT" designation is used for extensions that have > been implemented by at least two OpenGL vendors. What do you think of > making it a "MESA" extension?
I believe Nvidia is currently working on an implementation and they did much of the hard work in writing the spec. > > 2. Do you characterize the extension as being a short-term/stop-gap > solution until EGL-based drivers are available? If it gets > incorporated into Mesa CVS I worry people might get a little too > attached to it and divert attention way from the longer-term EGL > solution. I may just be over-cautious. It's a long-term solution. This extension is provided by Xgl and is used by the compositing manager. If Xgl is using EGL-based drivers or not doesn't matter, the compositing manager will still use GLX. > > I'll try to read the whole spec soon and comment on it. Great! Thanks, -David ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=103432&bid=230486&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Mesa3d-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mesa3d-dev
