On Thu, 6 Nov 2008, Ken Mays wrote:

> Alan brings up a good point which gets reiterated now and then.
> A lot of what we are trying to do is improve the XSun/Xorg implementation
> on SUN-based distros. This is controlled by MANAGEMENT whom are
> influenced or consulted by the ENGINEERS (somewhat).
>
> Nothing wrong with the obvious picture.
>
> Five years ago, my suggestion of having OpenGL 1.5/2.x on Solaris x86 was
> considered heresy or blasphemy. Today, Nvidia OpenGL 2.1 is the backbone of

   ???  We've been doing hw accelerated OGL on Solaris since 1999...

   Ah!  You meant 'free'... :)

[...]

> On SPARC, I have the Sun XVR-600 running Sun OpenGL 2.0_07 under XSun.

   Interesting - I wasn't aware Xsun supported OGL 2.0+.

> You heard me. Imagine ATI RadeonHD 1.2.3 drivers on the SPARC platform.
>

   hehe, imagine?  :)


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