Xegl ?

[Will Dyson]

On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 3:05 AM,  <CC.Fan at gmx.de> wrote:
> Hi,
> I recently read about Xegl on Wikipedia and its freedesktop.org page.
> As far as I know it would solve a lot of issues like: easier Video Driver
> development, hardware acceleration without X, BSOD, VT-Switching (even with
> hardware accelerated terminals) and so on.
> But why is noone working on it? It's supposed to be the Future of X so why not
> to start with the future now?

In my understanding, there are really 2 good answers:

1. Picking the low hanging fruit of the current architecture is the
best use of developer time right now. This would include implementing
support for newer Radeon cards (based on recently released
documentation). And getting the intel 965 performance problems worked
out.

2. The infrastructure is actually being worked on, but it isn't
terribly visible from the outside. For example, the in-kernel
modesetting work is needed before one can seriously consider
implementing EGL.

http://www.x.org/wiki/ModeSetting

-- 
Will Dyson