X Window System developer's meeting.

2004-12-21 Thread Jim Gettys
. A longer list of hotels is available at http://www.ai.mit.edu/visiting/hotels/hotels.shtml Directions to the lab can be found at: http://www.crl.hpl.hp.com/who/lab/directions.htm Jim Gettys George Staikos Havoc Pennington

Re: sparse and DRM on non-x86

2004-10-01 Thread Jim Gettys
I note that we (HP) have just nuked our future IA64 workstations; and as we shipped the largest volume of such machines (by far), constraints there will be use of graphics cards on servers, rather than any volume... - Jim I've seen stuff on the web that suggests

Re: DRM radeon i2c support and GPL

2004-09-21 Thread Jim Gettys
Alan, Please read, understand and comment on the license policy strawman I posted both to dri-devel and the xorg list. It is a strawman, a first draft, and as I understand my intent, is specifically intended to make it possible to permit such situations. Whether it actually says that clearly,

Strawman licensing policy (was: DRM radeon i2c support and GPL)

2004-09-20 Thread Jim Gettys
== Jim Gettys 9/20/2004 version .1 Preamble Many people, organizations and companies, have contributed to the corpus of code distributed by X.org, which has been built over 20 years. An *implicit* unwritten understanding of their contributions

Re: Strawman licensing policy (was: DRM radeon i2c support and GPL)

2004-09-20 Thread Jim Gettys
I think if you read it again more carefully, it doesn't say that. Of course, it is a strawman I just put together, so I may not have said what I meant - Jim On Mon, 2004-09-20 at 13:25, Jon Smirl wrote: This policy prevents code reuse from other parts of Linux. It is

Re: Strawman licensing policy (was: DRM radeon i2c support and GPL)

2004-09-20 Thread Jim Gettys
Also note the embedded issue raised during the Cairo relicencing discussion, however. We have a lot of embedded X use both historically and going forward; I know that hasn't occurred much in the DRI part of the world, but it is commonplace for X itself, and can be expected to be common in the

Re: [Xorg] Re: Damage/Composite + direct rendering clients

2004-05-18 Thread Jim Gettys
by their architecture, etc. Yeah, we have to sweat through the details and see if this approach all hangs together, and how DRI and the X server would interact. The devil is in the details, as usual. - Jim -- Jim Gettys [EMAIL PROTECTED] HP Labs, Cambridge Research Laboratory

Re: [Xorg] Damage/Composite + direct rendering clients

2004-05-18 Thread Jim Gettys
off when an application is grabbing the server. Which is why avoiding server grabs is imporant, as much as possible. It takes a global lock out on the X server and needs to be used with great care. - Jim -- Jim Gettys [EMAIL PROTECTED] HP Labs, Cambridge Research

Re: Damage/Composite + direct rendering clients

2004-05-17 Thread Jim Gettys
be necessary to get all this to work. - Jim -- Jim Gettys [EMAIL PROTECTED] HP Labs, Cambridge Research Laboratory --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: SourceForge.net Broadband Sign-up now for SourceForge

Re: [Xorg] Re: Damage/Composite + direct rendering clients

2004-05-17 Thread Jim Gettys
to the eye candy. It would be good if we can end up with one general mechanism for synchronziation, to avoid alot of ad-hoc mechanisms, if we can. I need to go back and swap in my knowledge of XSync, which is about a decade old. - Jim -- Jim Gettys [EMAIL PROTECTED] HP

[Dri-devel] X Window System developer's meeting.

2004-03-18 Thread Jim Gettys
Meeting include: * Keith Packard and Jim Gettys: The (Re)Architecture of the X Window System * Looking Glass - Sun Microsystems * Dave Reed Dave Smith: Croquet: Integrating X with 3D Immersive Environments * Eamon Walsh: Extensible Security for X: Motivation

[Dri-devel] X Window System developer's meeting.

2004-03-03 Thread Jim Gettys
Meeting include: * Keith Packard and Jim Gettys: The (Re)Architecture of the X Window System * Looking Glass - Sun Microsystems * Dave Reed Dave Smith: Croquet: Integrating X with 3D Immersive Environments Due to space limitations, attendance will be limited to no more than