multiple local and remote displays

Jon Smirl jonsmirl at gmail.com
Tue Mar 15 06:31:56 PST 2005


On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 07:21:38 -0700, Brian Paul
<brian.paul at tungstengraphics.com> wrote:
> > The solution is probably a layer above the current egl proposal like
> > Chronium but we should design the local egl API so that the insertion
> > of this layer is transparent.
> 
> Correct- a higher layer would do that.  I wouldn't use Chromium though.
> 
> If the EGL API/library is written correctly it will allow this.  For
> example, a particular EGL driver would act in a DMX-like manner and
> allow a collection of child EGL implementations to appear as one to
> the application.
> 
> The EGL dispatch mechanism I've prototyped will support this.

I just want to make sure that we have thought about these types of
setup and then build the appropriate API so that the layer can be
transparently inserted. No need to actually write the layer right now.


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Jon Smirl
jonsmirl at gmail.com


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