[Mesa3d-dev] Mesa - Scitech? myOS - Miniature, Linux based OpenGL development system without X

[ZeAtShuttle <ze...@xt...>]

hi,


brian suggested this was the best place to post this info and my =
questions, so here i go:


*** project

myOS - Miniature, Linux based OpenGL development system without X
It is bare bones Linux system, stripped down of everything, but core =
necessary files to compile and run OpenGL/C code. It has simplified =
directory structure and cleaned up internal cross referencing.

There is complete OpenGL Red Book together with 45 examples converted to =
use Scitech's drivers. Examples are organized to follow chapters and are =
ready to compile and run, they look very much like their GLUT version in =
Red Book. This little collection is really all one needs to learn =
OpenGL. In fact the whole system being very bare bones and really simple =
can be used as learning tool to teach Linux basics and C/OpenGL =
programming...

http://one.xthost.info/zelko/opengl.html

there are more OpenGL related downloads on that page
including old demos that were developed for Voodoo2 using Mesa





*** questions

1.)
can you please tell me,
since Scitech drivers are based on Mesa, why there is no mention of them =
on Mesa web site?



2.)
can you help me figure out,
how come no one uses Scitech to do "Linux without X" even tho they are =
clean, working solution?
and, i mean there is not a single Linux project using them, until now..



3.)
i could not figure out 'Mesa minixgl', dont even know what exactly and =
where is the source code for it, i tried GGI, directFB and looked into =
other "without X" projects, but they so much trouble to compile, have =
dependencies that i want to get rid of, hard to isolate, clean or are =
simply too big. since all the 'Linux without X' drivers are based on =
Mesa anyway, i assume minixgl might be most simplistic and smallest, =
therefore best solution for me, so:

is minixgl active?=20
can someone point out if there is nice simple link that will download =
all necessary source of minixgl in ONE file?



4.)
im looking forward to Mesa fbdev/DRI project or similar to have wider =
supported hardware, but meanwhile can you suggest if you know of any =
other Linux drivers that might be used to create "Linux-OpenGL without =
X" system?



cheers,
zelko