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Re: Notes on adding accelerated OpenGL support to Cygwin/X
On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 06:54:57PM +0100, Alexander Gottwald wrote:
> On Fri, 30 Jan 2004, Alan Hourihane wrote:
>
> > Apparently SciTech (Kendall Bennett) donated some code (a driver) for Mesa
> > that allows it to accept the OpenGL commands from the client and call
> > the equivalent Direct3D counterparts thus providing hardware that has
> > a more capable Direct3D layer much more benefit.
>
> I've seen this too. But it seems that this driver was not updated for a long
> time. The notes state that this driver was included in mesa 3.x and I've found
> no evidence that anybody put hands on it later.
>
> But I might be wrong with this.
I believe Kendall updated it for Mesa 5.x and Karl is working on getting
it integrated into the current Mesa 6.x - or that's my understanding.
Karl is most certainly the best person to speak to as he's got the code.
Alan.