From: Brian P. <br...@va...> - 2001-08-20 17:26:26
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Raul Dias wrote: > > > > >The Mesa Glide driver will probably be dropped at some point in the > >not-too-distant future as most people are using much newer hardware > >than Voodoo1/2. I'm putting just enough work into it lately so that > >it runs the demos and Quake. > > With the glide support being droped, svgalib and win32 too. > > There won't be much to do with the stand alone. I actively maintain the X11 and OSMesa drivers. I leave it up to other to maintain the other drivers (I can't do everything). > Will the ggi support be droped too ? Nobody has been maintaining the code for it. I'll include it in the distro (like the other drivers) in case anyone feels like hacking on them. > What is the direction that Mesa will be taking? DRI (only) ? There will always be a stand-alone Mesa. Despite the proliferation of hardware-accelerated OpenGL libraries around, there seems to always be some call for software rendering with Mesa. > If the answer is yes, will it be possible to use Vodoo 1,2 in a DRI environment? No. Voodoo1/2 aren't ammenable to 3D in a window. -Brian |