Re: [oglbase-discuss] LibGL dispatch API (was Re: 2nd draft: GL_EXT_get_proc_address spec)

[Stuart Anderson]

On Thu, 16 Sep 1999, Brett Johnson wrote:

> Rather than just providing a spec that says where libGL.so should live, we
> should provide the libGL.so itself, and turn libGL.so into nothing more than
> a thin dispatch layer that "drivers" can plug into (this proposal would turn
> Mesa into a "driver", for example).


I like this idea a lot. In fact, it has many similarities with what we do in
our (Metro Link) product. However, this needs to be part of a different
specification as it is an Architectural specification, and not an ABI
specification which is what (I think) Jon is currently documenting. Including
this directly in the current specification would prevent other valid
architectures from claiming complience just becasue it is a different
architecture.


                                Stuart

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