OpenGL or no OpenGL

[Holger Krull]

Alan James Caruana schrieb:
> I found the features page ( http://x.cygwin.com/features.html ) which
> says that the Mesa 3D Graphics Library provides software-based OpenGL
> support, but one item of the To-Do list (
> http://x.cygwin.com/devel/todo.html ) states that Indirect OpenGL
> rendering still needs to be implemented, while Direct Rendering will
> be considered when the Indirect rendering will be finished.  Can
> anyone clarify this please?

This means that all OpenGl rendering is done in Software.
Work has been started to use OpenGl hardware acceleration, but it isn't finished. And nobody is working on it, afaik.
Direct/indirect rendering refers to where the server is running, on the same computer than the program that uses OpenGl (direct access to hardware) or with a network between them (indirect access to hardware).




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