Cooperative Linux
Michel Dänzer
michel at daenzer.net
Tue May 4 17:33:38 PDT 2004
On Tue, 2004-05-04 at 22:24, Jon Smirl wrote:
> --- Nicolas Souchu <nsouch at free.fr> wrote:
> > What would be the target of OpenGL in that case? Still DRI?
> > Thus it's like saying Xserver will be on top of DRI... which is a bit
> > strange to me.
The DRI drivers will run standalone, not relying on an X server.
> The plan is to get xserver running on top of OpenGL. That way xserver will
> benefit from the hardware acceleration of a 3D engine. Benchmarks from the Cairo
> list show 3D mode to be about 100:1 faster than current X drawing.
To be fair, the comparison was between optimized hardware-accelerated
OpenGL and unoptimized software-rendered RENDER extension, i.e. apples
and oranges.
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