Re: [Dri-devel] SGI will polish Linux for Visualization Systems

[Alex D. <ag...@ya...>]

--- Ian Romanick <id...@us...> wrote:
> Alex Deucher wrote:
> 
> > Wow that's awesome!  if we are lucky SGI may contribute the guts we
> > need to get the DRI working with xinerama/dmx/chromium.  It looks
> like
> > their multipipe GL already works with xinerama.  Does anyone know
> > anymore about this or know what sort of license their code will
> have?
> 
> It should already work.  Chromium and DMX sit on top of OpenGL. 
> Xinerama is another story, however.  In some sense, the GL driver has
> to 
> sit on top of Xinerama.
> 
> 

Yeah, I knew that, I was just figuring/hoping, it could be done
seemlessly.  Couldn't xinerama be made to work with chromium the way
DMX works with chromium?  that's what I was hoping SGI might have done.
 I'm probably missing some issues, but couldn't you have a libGL
wrapper like crfaker that would basically dispatch 3D to the
appropriate 3D driver?

Alex


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