On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 11:00:50PM -0700, Eric Anholt wrote: > On Tue, 27 Sep 2011 20:41:19 +0300, Alon Levy <al...@redhat.com> wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 09:50:06PM +0800, zhigang gong wrote: > > > Hi Keith, > > > > > > Here is the pull request to merge glamor. Basically, it has three parts. > > > The first part is the 2D rendering acceleration implementation in > > > glamor directory. It supports both OpenGL/GLESv2. The second part is > > > in hw/kdrive/xephyr. This part integrate glamor into Xephyr. And by > > > specify a "-glamor" when invoke the Xephyr then you can use glamor > > > to accelerate the rendering operations. The third part is in > > > hw/xfree86/glamor. This part implements a standalone ddx driver based > > > on glamor, egl and kms. With this glamor driver, you can start up > > > a Xserver over Mesa/EGL directly, without any native window system. > > > > > > > I am not very familiar with either cairo/pixman, just know that it is > > used in spice, and it has a GL backend. There is also clutter, and some > > other open source 2D GL rendering libraries (qt canvas is also interesting, > > although I guess it's C++). How is glamor related to them? (I guess some > > of them don't support EGL, but looking at those who do - clutter certainly, > > runs on my n900, and qt as well I think). > > It's similar in that it's using GL, but it's not similar in that it's > implementing a different rendering API, so all the GL code that matters > is different. It's like saying "Quake uses GL, how is glamor related to > Quake?"
Well, I was assuming that there is a possible common area that is larger then GL, but I guess I was wrong. > _______________________________________________ > xorg@lists.freedesktop.org: X.Org support > Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg > Info: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg > Your subscription address: al...@redhat.com _______________________________________________ xorg@lists.freedesktop.org: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg Info: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg Your subscription address: arch...@mail-archive.com