Xegl lives!

[Jon Smirl]

On 5/24/05, Adam Jackson <ajax at nwnk.net> wrote:
> If you have money to spend.  Think college students.  Think developing
> nations.  Think underfunded school systems.  The nature of free software is
> that people will run it on something other than your target system,
> particularly if your target system requires the user to spend money.

No one is putting a gun to people's head and making them upgrade. 
Stick with the server you have today.

> 
> > For cell phones/Ipaq use software mesa. Software mesa provides full OpenGL
> > on nothing but a dumb framebuffer.
> 
> And it will be slow OpenGL unless you get hardware blits, preferably with the
> ability to DMA from host memory.  And if you do have that, then you've
> basically just described Xati, only with a software Mesa engine bolted on.
> 
> Yes, we know, Xegl is wonderful on modern hardware, if you have decent drivers
> and OS support.  Let's try to look outside that bubble every once in a while.

If we had 10,000 developers we could do custom servers for everyone.
But right now we have 10 developers and 10 half finshed projects.
Believe it or not Xgl is actually a strategy to try and reduce the
amount of development work being done.

-- 
Jon Smirl
jonsmirl at gmail.com