Xegl lives!

[Jim Gettys]

Actually, Jon's work is less linux centric than it may seem (though his
Linux driver work is clearly Linux centric).

Fundamentally, the kernel device driver model in Linux is badly broken,
and Jon's been working on fixing that part of the mess, a very thankless
job for which he deserves much praise...

The commercial UNIX systems did a much better job in that part of their
X implementations.

He's also been working on getting X up on egl; a separate problem, which
everyone will benefit from.

I don't forsee it being very difficult to take the results of this work
and make it cross platform, onto systems with decent kernel device
drivers.
				- Jim


On Tue, 2005-05-24 at 09:56 -0700, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> Jon Smirl wrote:
> > I have no expectations that users can switch now. But we have a very
> > small pool of developers and splitting them between projects really
> > slows things down. Xorg is working just fine, can't we just leave it
> > be and work on getting Xgl ready?
> 
> I mainly keep quiet on Xgl, but could part of the problem in getting
> developers be that your plans there seem so Linux-centric that the
> developers who contribute to Xorg because it runs on so many other
> OS'es are uninterested in your work and don't want to contribute to
> reducing the cross-platform portability of X?
> 
>