Re: [Mesa3d-dev] gallium "raw" interfaces

[Xavier B. <xav...@fr...>]

On Wed, 2010-03-31 at 13:29 +0900, Miles Bader wrote:
> Luca Barbieri <luc...@gm...> writes:
> > In fact, given the Gallium architecture, it may even make sense to
> > support a variant of DirectX 10 as the main Mesa/Gallium API on all
> > platfoms, instead of OpenGL.
> 
> The apparent benefit would seem to be greater compatibility with
> software written for windows -- but that benefit is unlikely to remain,
> as MS basically changes their interfaces drastically with each major
> revision.

WINE can deal with that. The real showstopper is that WINE has to also
work on MacOS X and Linux + NVIDIA blob, where Gallium is unavailable.

	Xav