Re: [Chromium-dev] Native and Chromium

[Sean A. <sea...@ll...>]

Karl Rasche wrote:
> what about a "render-passthrough" spu?  basically duplicate the
> passthrough spu, but have its super spu be the render spu. then call the
> super func before calling the child func. shouldnt be too difficult..

Brian Paul wrote:
> Here's an idea though.  Assuming you always want a 2-way tee and one of
> the destinations is the render SPU, make a "rendertee" SPU.  It would
> basically be like the readback SPU (which is derived from the render SPU).
> But instead of passing glDrawPixels commands to the next SPU in the chain,
> we'd pass the incoming command stream.

I like this idea a lot.  It shouldn't be that hard to implement, either,
considering that it's just doing the work of the existing passthrough and
render SPUs.

If I ever get some spare time (ha ha), I'll see about taking a crack at it.

Brian:
> Yeah, it would be nice if starting an ordinary app (linked to the faker
> libGL of course) would automatically start the mothership (with
> appropriate config file), start the servers, etc and render back into the
> app window.  All auto-magic.  Someday.

Yep.  Good dreams, all of them.

I suppose we should add them to the sf.net feature request list.

-Sean

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