egl development

[Brian Paul]

Sean D'Epagnier wrote:
> Hi, I have been working on opengl programs and glut to run on top of mesa's
> fbdev driver.
> 
> I have also run miniglx on my radeon 7500, and I am impressed by seeing
> hardware acceleration, but it has a lot of problems, a lot of this is by
> trying to implement the glx protocol.  I am told egl will replace miniglx.
> 
> I would like to know what the status of egl is, and what needs to be done.
> Even if there are issues that haven't been worked out yet, lets discuss
> them and decide on resolutions.

EGL is kind of in limbo now.  I haven't had time to work on it for a 
while (and apparently no one else has).

The status of things can be gleaned from the Mesa/src/egl/docs/* files.


> If one were to run X on top of egl, would glx be implemented to work
> as indirect rendering?

Ideally both indirect and direct rendering would work.


> Would egl programs be able to run under x under egl?

To be determined.

-Brian