[Xcb] xcb support for mesa

[Christoph Pfister]

Hi,

2007/6/26, Barton C Massey <bart at cs.pdx.edu>:
> Being mostly ignorant of 3D stuff---what are we still
> missing that folks want?  I naively thought we were done
> once Jeremy got xcb_glx working...

AFAIU mesa is a higher level library which can use different backends
(dri, indirect ...).

>         Bart

> In message <Pine.LNX.4.44.0706261536030.1111-100000 at groucho.unet.brandeis.edu> you wrote:
> > Hi Christoph,
> >
> > The GLX protocol is useable from within xcb so you can use xcb_glx_* calls
> > but yeah the mesa implementation is not complete.  If you feel like
> > hacking... ;)

That would mean hacking mesa - awful++ :-)

> > Jeremy

Christoph


> > On Tue, 26 Jun 2007, Christoph Pfister wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Are there plans to add "full" xcb support to mesa, so that you can use
> > > for example xcb connections and don't need Display* anymore?
> > > caro made me aware that 7.0 contains some xcb code, but it's only used
> > > internally and nothing xcb related is exposed to the api.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Christoph