Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] OpenGL for OS X

["Gwenole Beauchesne" <gwenole.beauchesne@gmail.com>]

Hi,

2008/2/5, Fabrice Bellard <fabrice@bellard.org>:

> This is an SDL related issue (i.e. SDL may or may not use OpenGL to
> display graphics). Fixing SDL for Mac OS X would also be interesting.

I think SDL trunk (1.3) supports OpenGL rendering more specifically
for various platforms.

Besides, on my MacBook, fullscreen SDL with a HW surface can indeed
perform much better (550 Mpixels/sec) than fullscreen GL (190
Mpixels/sec). With a SW surface, results are equivalent to GL though.

In windowed (800x600) mode, SDL performs at 28 Mpixels/sec and GL at
150 Mpixels/sec. So, SDL 1.2 for OSX (CG?) in windowed mode is indeed
sub-optimal. I have not tried with SDL trunk yet.

You can get my tests as svn co
http://svn.beauchesne.info/svn/gwenole/projects/blitter-tests/trunk
blitter-tests

Note: I am not sure if I am using GL/PBOs correctly though I followed
the specs. I mean the tests run e.g. on Linux but not on Windows with
the same level of drivers (nvidia 169.xx). In the latter case, the
program crashes in glUnmapBuffer()...

Regards,
Gwenolé.