Really nice article.

Really nice article.

Posted Aug 31, 2005 0:14 UTC (Wed) by airlied (subscriber, #9104)
In reply to: Really nice article. by stef70
Parent article: The state of Linux graphics

Xegl hasn't stopped, I've done some recent work on it, and I'm waiting on the Xgl author to make some changes he has in the pipeline,

but Xegl isn't the beginning and end there is a lot of work to be done that is infrastructure work, he claims fbdev can be used for a lot more than it can, and at KS we decided a userspace solution may be necessary in a lot of cases. Video Memory management is a big area that Xegl needs to get working futher, work in this is area seems to be taking off again and once X.org modular is finished it will probably see more developers.

And the current DRI drivers are completely useful outside of X, I use them in products with Mesa-solo, and Xegl is built on the current radeon DRI driver. The big areas missing are mode setting and memory management.

As for the proprietary ones you'd have to ask NVIDIA/ATI.

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