[Xorg] DRI merging

[Alan Coopersmith]

Jon Smirl wrote:
> --- Alan Cox <alan at lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
> 
>>On Sul, 2004-06-13 at 03:07, Jon Smirl wrote:
>>
>>>Why not help getting mesa-solo working so that we can move to X on top of
>>>OpenGL?
>>
>>For one, in the two years that is going to take to bear fruit, we need a
>>working X server. Two because mesa-solo isnt supported on most of
>>the Xorg platforms.
> 
> I'm not sure if you mean platforms as in OS or platform as in cards, but
> mesa-solo runs on the fbdev driver using software mesa. Between fbdev and the
> accelerated drivers that covers all of the more common hardware.

But fbdev only covers one of the supported OS'es right?  Xorg runs on the BSD's,
Solaris, Windows/Cygwin, MacOS X, and many other platforms without fbdev, so it's
very premature to say that work on anything else is wasted.

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