Xegl lives!

[Alan Coopersmith]

Jon Smirl wrote:
> Sun will need to think about it's GUI strategy in world where Mac,
> Linux and Windows (Longhorn) are all running full accelerated
> composting and drawing systems. Once you play with a fully accelerated
> system it is hard to go back - the differences in look and feel are
> obvious.

I think Sun's already made it perfectly clear our thinking lies along
OpenGL lines in the future, and we are working on getting there as
fast as we can.   We have hardware accelerated OpenGL for most of our
SPARC graphics devices already, and we will soon have hardware accelerated
OpenGL for nVidia cards on Solaris x86, and have people looking into porting
the DRI infrastructure for a wider set of supported devices.    I can't say
when we'd have enough devices covered by GL drivers to make a GL-based
X server reasonable - perhaps it will be sooner than I imagine, perhaps not.

I wasn't really trying to get into a debate here, just trying to suggest
an answer the question of why most people keep working on Xorg and not Xgl.
Making it clear that it's not just about Linux, and not just about the few
devices with good 3D drivers might make more people interested in helping.

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