Xegl lives!

[David Reveman]

On Wed, 2005-05-25 at 09:36 +0100, Matthew Allum wrote: 
> Hi;
> 
> On 5/25/05, Jon Smirl <jonsmirl at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > Shiny fast 3D can be had for $10 now. For cell phones/Ipaq use
> > software mesa. Software mesa provides full OpenGL on nothing but a
> > dumb framebuffer.
> > 
> 
> If theres any floating point happening here, cell phone/Ipaq/Zaurus
> performance will simply fall flat on its face ( no fpu ).

Xgl can run without using floating point. 'Xglx -vertextype short'
should do it, but I think that there is currently some places where
floating point is used anyway but that should be easily fixed.
Eventually, we're going to make it possible to run glitz on the EGL
Common profile and use GL_OES_fixed_point... that will make it more
useful for cell phones and such.

> 
> Though its worth noting that 3D mobile chipsets ( higher end ATI
> Imageon and intel 2700g for example ) are beginning to become pretty
> common. I suspect in a couple of years it will be hard to find a cell
> phone/PDA without H/W 3D esp as the games on them try to compete with
> things like the Sony PSP. That said there is still the issue of Linux
> drivers existing for such chipsets - I believe the 2700g has some
> specs for it but not the imageons.
> 
> I will try in the next couple of week to get Xegl running on an ARM
> PDA and see how bad ( or good :) )  things are.
> 
>   -- Matthew
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-David