New glucose code

[Alan Hourihane]

On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 15:29 +0200, David Reveman wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 16:07 +0100, Alan Hourihane wrote: 
> > Carrying on from Zack's original idea and code, I've released some new
> > code on the glucose-2 branch which goes all the way to allowing xorg
> > drivers to use the xgl acceleration paths.
> > 
> > It's a simple one line call to initialize glucose in the driver as I
> > mentioned in the commit message. It's...
> > 
> > glucoseScreenInit(pScreen);
> > 
> > So, initialization only need to change such as .....
> > 
> > if (!exa && !xaa)
> >     glucoseScreenInit(pScreen);
> > else if (!exa)
> >     driversXAAinit(...);
> > else
> >     driversEXAinit(...);
> > 
> > It also works with Mesa's software renderer too, but is obviously slow,
> > but useful as a testing harness.
> > 
> > There's still a few niggly issues such as server shutdown causes
> > failures, but I'm working on those. There are also some rendering
> > glitches depending on which 3D driver you use, but they could well be
> > problems in the respective 3D drivers. Usually good to test with Mesa by
> > disabling DRI to check this.
> > 
> > As I've said, all the new code is on the glucose-2 branch, but I'll be
> > working to stabilize it and hopefully merge to the trunk in the future.
> > 
> > If there's any comments, etc, post away, and feel free to bang on the
> > code.
> > 
> > Alan.
> 
> Great work Alan! This is exactly what I've been wanting to do for some
> time now but never got around to it.
> 
> Do you want me to move the glucose glitz backend into the glitz repo?
> 
> How about moving the xgl code currently in xserver/hw/xgl to xserver/xgl
> and avoid symlinking and building xgl sources in glucose directory?
> 
> The XF86 module part in xserver/glucose/glucose.c, if not all of
> glucose.c, really belongs in a xserver/hw/xfree86/glucose directory,
> right?

Actually, sorry, you are right here. The small module part of the code
should be moved to xserver/hw/xfree86/glucose.

Alan.