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

Dave Airlie airlied at gmail.com
Wed May 25 01:31:45 PDT 2005


> 
> 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).

Modularisation will make this much easier, the Xegl server would be
all that is required extra (well glitz as well...) the EGL code would
be built into the same DRI driver that are currently used if we do it
properly and these can still be used by the older server..

Dave.



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