The way to go with new 3D drivers

[Jerome Glisse]

On Tue, 1 Jul 2008 18:04:42 +0300
"Shachar Kaufman" <shachar.kaufman at gmail.com> wrote:

> Having a DDX with XAA/EXA support which makes me comfortable, it's time to
> move on to the next step. I'd like to give my simple graphics hardware
> OpenGL acceleration support under Linux/Xorg. What would be the way to go
> about this today? 
> 
>  
> 
> Naturally I am looking at MESA to start off with, but am confused which
> driver(s) to use as an up-to-date reference which is also readable. I read
> about Gallium3D (Nouveau seems like a very active project), I also looked at
> the sources for current stable DRI drivers (Radeon, iXXX) as well as the
> OSMESA and X11 drivers.

If your hw support pixel shader then gallium should fit your need, if
it doesn't then you want to use mesa. There is not much other documentation
than what is on dri.freedesktop.org and the source code.

Cheers,
Jerome Glisse