russell aspinwall wrote:
> When will Mesa 7.0.2 be incorporated into
OpenSolaris to provide
 OpenGL 2.1 support?

Alan Coopersmith wrote:
TBD.   It's on the X team's list of things to update,
but that
is a very very very long list at the moment, and since
few people
have had anything that needs 7.0.2 instead of 6.5.2 or
the nvidia
version of OpenGL, it's not been our top priority (or
at least few
people have told us if they do - the only thing I've
been asked for
from 7.0.2 is the updated Intel driver support).
------->

Alan,

Ref: http://www.blastwave.org/packages.php/mesalibs

Would it break your builds of Xorg 7.2 or the video
device drivers if Mesa 7.0.2 was added?!?

The game, DangerDeep, and Demoniak3D are a few
applications that benefit from Mesa 7.0.2. I worked on
porting Blender (now v2.46) for Blastwave.org when we
updated to Mesa 7.0.x for game development and porting
projects (way before the Nvidia drivers were
officially supported on Solaris). This is just
something that benefits both OpenSolaris desktop and
gaming developers wanting to explore GLSL 1.20.x
programming on Solaris - yet not having Nvidia GPUs in
their laptops or workstations.

I mentioned this about two years ago on getting OpenGL
2.1 API compliant support on OpenSolaris/Solaris 10
and submitted an RFE as well. 

Wouldn't Mesa 7.0.2/7.1 benefit Xorg video device
driver 3D development and testing?!?

~ Ken Mays







      
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