Xgl server

[Matthias Hopf]

On Dec 07, 04 10:52:01 -0600, mcnichol at austin.ibm.com wrote:
> I think we need to be a bit careful about this assumption.
> 
> Yes I agree that high end workstations and gaming machines will probably have
> 1GB of graphics memory soon.  It will be longer before this moves down to
> your average desktop system, and much much longer before we see that kind
> of power in laptops and other mobile devices.
> 
> My not to old ThinkPad T30 (Radeon Mobility 7500) can only use something like
> 32mb for graphics memory.

I never said we should abandom old hardware (your ThinkPad is already
old by today's standard - no offence!). Only that we should think about
modern hardware when designing acceleration infrastructure.

There will always be a fallback sollution for lowend systems. And you
don't want to use eye-fancy graphics with real-time shadows of
chinese antialiased fonts rendered on rotating windows on this system,
do you?  ;-)))

Care has to be taken that the fallback sollution does not get slower
than with todays architecture, of course. But we shouldn't optimize for
yesterday's hardware, but for tomorrow's.

CU

Matthias

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