I come bearing Gifts

Jon Smirl jonsmirl at gmail.com
Sun Jul 17 00:33:16 EST 2005


On 7/16/05, Dane Rushton <danerushton at gmail.com> wrote:
> Jon Smirl wrote:
> > On 7/16/05, Dane Rushton <danerushton at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >>I ported it as a learning exercise for myself more than anything.
> >>As I said, I want to help out with EGL and Xegl. I see that input in
> >>Xgl/Xegl still needs a lot of work, so I'm doing some research on that
> >>(evdev etc). If I create anything useful, I'll post a diff or documentation.
> >>What is the current plan for input in Xgl or is it still up in the air?
> >
> >
> > Questions about the Xegl server vs the EGL API should go to the
> > xorg at freedesktop.org list.
> >
> Will do, however maybe Xgl/Xegl/Xglx etc should get a list of it's own
> rather than being mixed in with xorg? Just like dri-egl is a seperate
> list to Mesa. Just my $0.02 (thats NZ$ so not worth much).

Much of the code is the same between Xgl and Xorg. For example all of
the GLX code is the same. You can even copy drivers from Xorg into
Xegl like the evdev one. They both implement the same X protocol and
xlib too.

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Jon Smirl
jonsmirl at gmail.com


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