Re: [Xorg] DRI merging

[Roland M. <rol...@nr...>]

Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> >>>Why not help getting mesa-solo working so that we can move to X on top of
> >>>OpenGL?
> >>
> >>For one, in the two years that is going to take to bear fruit, we need a
> >>working X server. Two because mesa-solo isnt supported on most of
> >>the Xorg platforms.
> >
> > I'm not sure if you mean platforms as in OS or platform as in cards, but
> > mesa-solo runs on the fbdev driver using software mesa. Between fbdev and the
> > accelerated drivers that covers all of the more common hardware.
> 
> But fbdev only covers one of the supported OS'es right?  Xorg runs on the BSD's,
> Solaris, Windows/Cygwin, MacOS X,

... HP-UX, IRIX, BeOS, AIX etc ...

> and many other platforms without fbdev, so it's
> very premature to say that work on anything else is wasted.

I agree with Alan.

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Bye,
Roland

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