Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 31 Aug 2005 12:06:10 -0700 | From | Allen Akin <> | Subject | Re: State of Linux graphics |
| |
On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 01:48:11PM -0400, Jim Gettys wrote: | Certainly replicating OpenGL 2.0's programmability through Render makes | no sense at all to me (or most others, I believe/hope). If you want to | use full use of the GPU, I'm happy to say you should be using OpenGL.
When expressed that way, as a question of whether you're using the GPU all-out, I think it's easy for everyone to agree. But we also need to beware of the slippery slope where functionality gets duplicated a piece at a time.
This has already happened in several areas, so it remains a concern. For me at least. :-)
Allen - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
| |