[Xcb] xcb support for mesa

Barton C Massey bart at cs.pdx.edu
Fri Jun 29 13:06:40 PDT 2007


So is what is needed/wanted to actually port Mesa to use XCB
instead of Xlib as its underlying transport?  If so, anyone
interested in taking this on?

	Bart

In message <200706290036.43721.hto at arcor.de> you wrote:
> On Tuesday 26 June 2007, Barton C Massey wrote:
> > 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...
> 
> I believe the problem is that glx uses an extra protocol to pack 
> openGL-calls efficently into X requests. The code so far can only set 
> up contexts/query stuff, but it cannot do full openGL.
> 
> See e.g.:
> 
> http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xcb/2005-January/000258.html
> 
> Tom
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