Re: [Xen-devel] Accellerated windows graphics drivers

[Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

James Harper, le Wed 12 Mar 2008 11:40:29 +1100, a écrit :
> Has anyone ever seriously thought about implementing a 3d acceleration
> driver for windows (or linux too I guess)?

We've been thinking about it here yes, but just thinking :)

> 1. a windows frontend driver that handles directx calls from Windows and
> puts them on a ring for the backend
> 2. a linux backend driver that gets these requests and passes them to a
> userspace application
> 3. a special linux X xen console driver (eg not VNC) that handles these
> requests and converts them to GL calls
> 
> Doesn't sound like a particularly small job...

In the meanwhile, there is an alternative: chromium

www.sf.net/projects/chromium

which packs OpenGL over TCP & other networks.  Actually, maybe that
could be used as is, with a "shared memory" driver.

Samuel

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