From: Keith Packard <keithp@keithp.com>
To: Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@yahoo.com>
Cc: James Simmons <jsimmons@infradead.org>,
Nicolas Souchu <nsouch@free.fr>,
dri-devel <dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>,
mesa3d-dev <mesa3d-dev@lists.sourceforge.net>,
fb-devel <linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>,
Keith Packard <keithp@keithp.com>
Subject: Re: [Dri-devel] Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] Redesign of kernel graphics interface
Date: Thu, 06 May 2004 18:20:24 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1BLu2K-0000aT-00@evo.keithp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 06 May 2004 17:50:40 PDT." <20040507005040.18258.qmail@web14925.mail.yahoo.com>
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Around 17 o'clock on May 6, Jon Smirl wrote:
> A proposal has been made that OpenGL be promoted as the primary base graphics
> API on Linux. Then things like Cairo and the xserver be implemented on top of
> OpenGL.
I respectfully disagree with this plan. OpenGL should be the sole API for
accessing the graphics card for systems which support it, but I encourage
application developers to continue coding to the X API so that there
aren't unexpected "surprises" when run on a machine which doesn't support
OpenGL.
That the X server will use OpenGL to talk to these graphics cards is an
implementation detail which shouldn't be visible to applications.
-keith
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-05-07 1:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-05-06 18:16 Redesign of kernel graphics interface Jon Smirl
2004-05-06 19:46 ` [Linux-fbdev-devel] " Geert Uytterhoeven
2004-05-06 23:20 ` James Simmons
2004-05-06 20:57 ` Otto Solares
2004-05-06 23:19 ` Nicolas Souchu
2004-05-06 21:42 ` Jon Smirl
2004-05-07 0:30 ` Nicolas Souchu
2004-05-06 22:48 ` James Simmons
2004-05-07 0:50 ` Jon Smirl
2004-05-07 1:20 ` Keith Packard [this message]
2004-05-07 1:33 ` [Dri-devel] " Jon Smirl
2004-05-07 8:31 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2004-05-14 17:20 ` Sven Luther
2004-05-14 17:35 ` Alex Deucher
2004-05-14 19:25 ` Sven Luther
2004-05-14 17:51 ` Jon Smirl
2004-05-14 18:08 ` Ville Syrjälä
[not found] ` <20040514184004.16621.qmail@web14930.mail.yahoo.com>
2004-05-14 19:01 ` Ville Syrjälä
2004-05-15 7:27 ` Holger Waechtler
2004-05-15 8:25 ` Ville Syrjälä
2004-05-17 17:40 ` Alan Cox
2004-05-14 19:31 ` Sven Luther
2004-05-10 0:57 ` [Dri-devel] " Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-05-10 16:14 ` James Simmons
2004-05-10 16:28 ` [Dri-devel] " Ville Syrjälä
2004-05-10 22:42 ` Nicolas Souchu
2004-05-10 18:29 ` Jon Smirl
2004-05-10 19:16 ` Mike Mestnik
2004-05-10 21:05 ` James Simmons
2004-05-10 22:39 ` Nicolas Souchu
2004-05-10 20:47 ` Otto Solares
2004-05-10 23:58 ` James Simmons
2004-05-11 22:57 ` Nicolas Souchu
2004-05-11 21:17 ` Otto Solares
2004-05-11 21:29 ` Ville Syrjälä
2004-05-10 19:33 ` [Dri-devel] Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] " Alan Cox
2004-05-11 8:33 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2004-05-10 23:40 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-05-10 23:50 ` James Simmons
2004-05-11 22:13 ` Compiling Rage xlinit.c Richard Smith
2004-05-14 19:41 ` Richard Smith
2004-05-14 21:28 ` Steve Longerbeam
2004-05-14 22:16 ` Richard Smith
2004-05-14 22:48 ` Steve Longerbeam
2004-05-14 23:57 ` Richard Smith
2004-05-15 0:22 ` Steve Longerbeam
2004-05-15 0:42 ` Ville Syrjälä
2004-05-18 22:06 ` James Simmons
2004-05-19 14:36 ` Richard Smith
2004-05-19 22:20 ` James Simmons
2004-05-07 8:30 ` [Linux-fbdev-devel] Redesign of kernel graphics interface Geert Uytterhoeven
2004-05-06 23:21 ` James Simmons
2004-05-10 12:07 ` [Dri-devel] " Egbert Eich
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