Re: [Dri-devel] Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] Redesign of kernel graphics interface

[Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@yahoo.com>]

--- Keith Packard <keithp@keithp.com> wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 

Read point #7

7) Going to OpenGL does not mean the end of X or remote access. xserver,
http://www.freedesktop.org/Software/xserver, still talks the X protocol and
still supports xlib. It just uses OpenGL (when Keith gets it working) to draw
instead of XAA. If you use Glitz, http://www.freedesktop.org/Software/glitz, the
OpenGL Cairo implementation, it will draw direct rendered and by-pass the
xserver for local drawing.


> -keith
> 
> 
> 

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Jon Smirl
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