Glucose status/instructions request, (and notes on stale branches)

[Alan Hourihane]

On Fri, 2007-10-19 at 07:26 +1000, Dave Airlie wrote:
> On 10/19/07, Alan Hourihane <alanh at fairlite.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> > On Wed, 2007-10-17 at 22:08 -0700, Keith Packard wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2007-10-17 at 19:33 +0100, Alan Hourihane wrote:
> > >
> > > > I'm hoping to merge this to trunk pretty soon for both xserver and intel
> > > > code once the final couple of niggles are sorted out.
> > >
> > > I do not want this merged to trunk for xserver or the intel driver at
> > > this point. I consider it an important research project but not
> > > something I want to encourage distributions and other X.org consumers to
> > > use in the near term.
> >
> > Why Keith ? Any technical reason ?
> >
> > It's an optional component, no one is forced to use it.
> 
> While I don't agree with Keith's stance I really would like to see
> glucose useable before hitting master, granted I think most of the
> improvements required are in the 3D drivers not in the render->GL
> conversion..
> 
> 1. does it still rely on glitz? why? if so can we remove that?

It does as it's based on the same acceleration paths from Xgl so it's
reduced the effort to get a GL acceleration path up and running.

Optimisation is always the fun stuff in GL, so we could remove or
optimise glitz, but the code works as it stands and optimisation is
always a never-ending game.

> 2. does it go fast yet on any 3D driver? can we get example codepaths
> into one 3D driver so we can copy it?

Both myself and Jose have tested successfully on 945G hardware, and it
works really well with current Mesa/DRM head & xserver glucose-2 code.

The wiki page shows it's current status and there's a couple of issues
to get resolved, before I want to bring to master.

Alan.