Re: [Dri-devel] New to list; Darwin development

[strobe a. <ana...@ma...>]

At 11:41 AM -0800 1/22/01, Jens Owen wrote:
>strobe anarkhos wrote:
> > 
> > Scratch the idea of using the DRI kmod to help with OS X GL. It's
> > not possible due to the nature of CoreGraphics whereby there are
> > buffer swaps between the windowing environment an GL renderings
> > which occur in the kmod. DRI isn't up to that task.
>
>Are you interested (or able) to discuss what it would take to extend the
>DRI to handle your CoreGraphics requirements?
> 

At this point I don't think it's practical since X11 doesn't need it.

> > However DRI is still useful for those wanting to use full screen
> > accelerated XFree86 4 in Darwin, a completely open source OS.
>
>That's great.  Any thoughts on how similar (or different) is this from
>the Linux PPC or the FreeBSD x86 ports?


Well hopefully once you guys settle down on the command set between the 3D DRI Driver and the kmod there will be no difference between the command sets between Linux/X11, FreeBSD/X11, and Darwin/X11 thus the 3D DRI Driver source code would be multiplatform.

The kmod itself would need to be re-written of course.