Xegl lives!

[Alan Coopersmith]

Then perhaps it's just a perception problem - at the Xorg conference and
in the mailing lists, so many of the discussions on this seem to center
around kernel drivers and such that it really seems to be a Linux-only
project.   I know I've had little interest in looking into it more because
of that impression (not that I have spare time to contribute cycles to it
as well as everything else I'm already doing) - if I've misunderstood this,
then I'm sorry.

(And yes, I'm biased by getting paid to maintain an X server for a platform
  which has far more cards with usable Xorg DDX'es than usable OpenGL drivers
  at any level.   We're working to fix that as we can, but I can't see any
  way we'll have enough coverage to be moving from a traditional DDX-based
  X server to a OpenGL/EGL based X server anytime soon, so will likely
  continue to devote most of the resources we have available for open source
  X work to working on the existing Xorg code base.)

	-Alan Coopersmith-           alan.coopersmith at sun.com
	 Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering

Jim Gettys wrote:
> 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?
>>
>>
> 
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