Hardware Independent X.Org Graphics Drivers

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Hardware Independent X.Org Graphics Drivers

Aspirations towards hardware-independent accelerated X.Org graphics drivers were talked about at XDC2012...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTE4OTc

[timothyja]

I've worked with people like Ian Romanick before. All rapped up in there own little world were they *think* they know best and wont even listen to other peoples views. Ian could have at least put his rant in question form instead of just hijacking the presentation. A closed mind is a dying mind.

[timothyja]

My appologies its that was Keith Packard not Ian.

[gens]

as i see Lucas was making a point about offloading 2D stuff to the gpu

im by far no expert, but i have seen applications performing a lot worse when the console gets flooded

if that offloading he was talking about works on text too, isnt that a win for the application that need the cpu time ?

[hoohoo]

So you push the hw deps into a library and use that as the basis for a driver...

That's not a hw independent driver, that's middleware.

[garegin]

do the vesa drivers have KMS?

[gens]

So you push the hw deps into a library and use that as the basis for a driver...

That's not a hw independent driver, that's middleware.

isn't that gallium then ?

[geearf]

I've worked with people like Ian Romanick before. All rapped up in there own little world were they *think* they know best and wont even listen to other peoples views. Ian could have at least put his rant in question form instead of just hijacking the presentation. A closed mind is a dying mind.

Maybe, but who is right?

[uid313]

What happens to hardware-independent X.Org graphics drivers, X.org acceleration, the Xorg state tracker and the XA state tracker with Wayland?
When X.org runs on top of Wayland.

[ssvb]

Is "offloading" of 2D graphics to GPU still really important, considering that everyone typically has from 2 to 8 CPU cores nowadays?