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Re: [Xen-devel] Accellerated windows graphics drivers



James Harper wrote:
> Has anyone ever seriously thought about implementing a 3d acceleration
> driver for windows (or linux too I guess)? I imagine that you would need
> the following components:
>
> 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...
>
> James
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You might want to check out this thread.
   http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2008-01/msg00786.html

I found the patch here:
   http://www.mail-archive.com/qemu-devel@xxxxxxxxxx/msg07425.html

Pat

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