2D is not (repeat, not) expendable (was: Re: Xegl lives!)

[Nicolas Mailhot]

On Mer 25 mai 2005 10:10, Xavier Bestel a écrit :
> Le mardi 24 mai 2005 à 23:16 -0400, Jon Smirl a écrit :
>> No one is going to take away the current Xorg server. People who don't
>> want to spend $10 upgrading their hardware also don't need animated,
>> composited, sub-pixel rendered displays either. Just keep running the
>> server you have right now. It works and it is free.
>
> That means distros will have to ship 2 servers, Xorg and Xegl. Because
> users want to use newer distros on older harware (I still use my 2D-only
> laptop with newest Ubuntu, it performs rather well and would cost way
> more than $10 to upgrade).

If I remember well that's exactly what Red Hat at least did during the
initial XFree86 3/4 switch

> Would it be possible to have an OpenGL backend accelerated for 2D
> blits ? That means you can still run everything, but provided you stick
> to a no-frills WM (without shadowed translucent wobbly windows) you
> still get an accelerated display.

If I understood Jon correctly people who have poor 3d cards should work on
Mesa since it will be used as software rendering fallback if the hardware
is lacking.

Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot