On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 03:39:08AM -0400, Mike A. Harris wrote:
> Glide is dead as a developmental library for 3D and is really
> only useful as an in between for DRI.
>
> Would it make sense to make Glide3 a native part of XFree86? I
> think it would simplify bug reporting and bug fixing, etc.
>
> Are there any licensing problems, or other reasons that preclude
> this from occuring? We include it in our XFree86 package, but
> I'd just as soon see it natively added to XFree86 and made part
> of the Imake build system. It is unlikely to be used or
> developed much outside of XFree86 anyway IMHO.
>
> Just curious if others are feeling this also, and to find out if
> it is something that might happen or be feasible for the trunk
> code or DRI project.
It's a big ugly hairy mess that no one is supporting. How does moving it
into XFree help?
What needs to happen is that Glide and X need to be separated not
integrated. There's an easy way to do it, and a better way. The easy way
is to make the driver dynamically load Glide and make the X tree include
only those header files it needs to compile the 3D driver. That's work
we're already doing.
The better answer would be to rewrite the tdfx 3D driver to send packets
to the board directly without using Glide. That will simplify the whole
setup, and may improve performance a tad. No one has stepped forward to
volunteer to do that work, and we're not likely to do it.
- |Daryll
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