From: Allan Schaffer (allan++at++sgi.com)
Date: 02/29/2000 11:22:28
On Feb 29, 3:09am, Steve McGee wrote:
> I am excited at the prospect of Performer on Linux,
> but am a little frustrated at the lack of Mesa drivers
> for the available hardware. Then I stumbled across
> the XFree86 4.0 announcements which sound encouraging.
> XFree86 4.0 is to have Direct OpenGL support.
> If done right, this should facilitate the Linux Port greatly.
>
> Will Performer - Linux take advantage of XF86 4.0?
Some minor (Makefiles, dependencies, etc) tweaks might end up being
necessary but yes, we expect that Performer will work with XFree86
4.0.
As you might be aware there's a development effort underway led by
Daryll Strauss at Precision Insight to implement a Mesa-based "Direct
Rendering Infrastructure" for XFree86; we've been monitoring progress
there and participate on their development mailing list(s) to keep up
to date. A few other Linux-based info-performer folks are there as
well. http://sourceforge.net/project/?group_id=387
Likewise we are very closely and intently following the progress of
the OpenGL ABI for Linux project (aka Linux/OpenGL Base) led by Jon
Leech here at SGI, whose goal is to define the ABI and runtime
environment for OpenGL under X11 on Linux.
http://oss.sgi.com/projects/ogl-sample/ABI/
When the ABI efforts come to fruition it will greatly ease our work
with Performer, since we (and anyone else developing OpenGL
applications on Linux) will be able to assume an exact set of
installation compilation, and run time dependencies regardless of the
OpenGL vendor or implementor.
As an aside, Performer Town seems to have become something of a
reliable testbed application :-) for OpenGL implementations in the
Linux world so when things break we generally hear about it.
Allan
-- Allan Schaffer allan++at++sgi.com Silicon Graphics http://reality.sgi.com/allan
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