From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Keith Packard Subject: Re: [Dri-devel] Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] Redesign of kernel graphics interface Date: Thu, 06 May 2004 18:20:24 -0700 Sender: mesa3d-dev-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: References: <20040507005040.18258.qmail@web14925.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_1832957872P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 06 May 2004 17:50:40 PDT." <20040507005040.18258.qmail@web14925.mail.yahoo.com> Errors-To: mesa3d-dev-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: To: Jon Smirl Cc: James Simmons , Nicolas Souchu , dri-devel , mesa3d-dev , fb-devel , Keith Packard --==_Exmh_1832957872P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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 --==_Exmh_1832957872P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Exmh version 2.3.1 11/28/2001 iD8DBQFAmuRYQp8BWwlsTdMRAuYvAKDHc8BSBO3muNdSwaPNeCuywUwWDACePHry Q48SmdOoNxARiFaLaENI+rQ= =irT2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_1832957872P-- ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by Sleepycat Software Learn developer strategies Cisco, Motorola, Ericsson & Lucent use to deliver higher performing products faster, at low TCO. http://www.sleepycat.com/telcomwpreg.php?From=osdnemail3