Just to be clear, "SVGA" here is the VMware virtual GPU interface, not the ancient SVGA video standard.
This driver will allow guest Linux OpenGL applications to utilize the host's 3D graphics hardware when running VMware Workstation. -Brian ________________________________________ From: Jakob Bornecrantz [[email protected]] Sent: Monday, November 16, 2009 7:36 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [Mesa3d-dev] SVGA Gallium3D Driver Hello all! As some of you might have noticed I just pushed out the SVGA driver to the Mesa repository. For those that didn't please read on. The driver requires Xorg 1.7.x and the vmwgfx kernel driver. You can get the userspace driver from the mesa repository on the master branch now, but the kernel driver should be available tomorrow at git://git.freedesktop.org/git/mesa/vmwgfx.git sorry about that. The SVGA OpenGL driver is the first production ready Gallium3D driver. However the kernel driver and both DRI and Xorg state tracker are only beta quality, we are going to stabilize the state trackers on the 7.7 mesa branch. While aiming for inclusion of the vmwgfx kernel driver for in linux 2.6.33. The driver was a team effort with Keith, José, Stephen, Michel, Michal, Zack, Thomas, Vinson, Alan and myself all making contributions. All building on top of the work done in Gallium and Mesa. Short about the Xorg 1.7.x requirement, the driver will run on 1.6.x server but due optimization in exa made for 1.7.x it will be horribly slow (I kid you not). We are looking into fixing this somehow. Just to repeat you can not test it yet as the kernel driver isn't out there, but will be shortly. Cheers Jakob. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Mesa3d-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mesa3d-dev ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Mesa3d-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mesa3d-dev
