[Xcb] Project ideas?

[Aliner]

Do I need to rewrite my XCB application to use direct rendering in OpenGL?

RALOVICH wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 19:40, Arnaud Fontaine <arnaud at andesi.org> wrote:
>   
>>>>>>> Vincent Torri <vtorri at univ-evry.fr> writes:
>>>>>>>               
>> Hi Vincent,
>>
>>    > XCB port of Xephyr ?
>>
>> Yes,  it  sounds interesting  too  but not  so  exciting  compared to  a
>> compositing manager IMO ;). Thanks for the idea anyway.
>>
>>    > There was an  SoC project to port Mesa to XCB.   It did a bunch of
>>    > useful  things, but didn't really  result in a  fully working port
>>    > IIRC.
>>
>> For now, I don't know a lot  of things about 3D, but, just curious, what
>> is the status of this port? I  couldn't find a lot of relevant things on
>> google.
>>     
>
> I am the one who did some advancements to xcb support in Mesa during
> gsoc 2008. I have written a final report on my work
> (http://kristofralovich.blogspot.com/2008/09/gsoc-2008-project-report.html),
> but let me try to answer the questions raised here.
>
> 0) GLX is an extension for the X wire protocol. GLX also has an API
> (glX??? calls) aligned with the Xlib API (this API is implemented
> inside eg. Mesa). Although the GLX protocol is similar to the GLX API,
> there is a huge gap between them (Mesa)! xcb_glx is a C language
> binding for GLX protocol (requests and replies), which is again, not
> equivalent with the GLX API! Don't get confused!
>
> 1) Xcb and OpenGL has anything to do with each other is during
> indirect rendering. This stands for proprietary drivers too.
>
> 2) Mesa configured with --enable-xcb and run in indirect rendering
> uses *mostly* the xcb protocol binding calls (xcb_glx_??) for wire
> communication. Mostly, since
> - a few requests were definitely forgotten:( and
> - VendorPrivate requests would require some machinery inside Mesa to
> auto generate wrappers over individual xcb_glx_vendor_private_???
> calls (think of VendorPrivate requests as an extension to GLX).
>
> This year I am planning on submitting an other GSOC project for
> resolving the last two issues.
>
>   
>> Cheers,
>> Arnaud
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>>     
>
> Bye,
> Kristof
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