What to do now after Xgl and Xegl are gone....

Adam Jackson ajax at nwnk.net
Tue Jun 16 11:03:39 PDT 2009


On Tue, 2009-06-16 at 11:32 +0200, david at protonic.nl wrote:

> > You probably want to start with something like the Xorg fbdev driver and
> > then start bolting on acceleration paths that call down into the EGL
> > driver.  Getting that to interact well with GLX clients should be
> > entertaining.
> 
> I was suspecting something like that.... Isn't there anybody else who has done 
> this before? How do the folks from Maemo do this?

Xomap is findable in the maemo sources somewhere, I believe.  I used to
have a URL for it but it seems to no longer work.  It's a kdrive server.
I don't think it uses the hardware GL support at all though.

> Can I use call EXA functions (i.e. exaDriverAlloc())from kDrive also (maybe 
> via hooks from fbdevFuncs->initAccel()) ?

You can.  See the Xephyr code for examples.

- ajax
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