Am 15.01.2012 03:56, schrieb Paul Wise: > On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 6:09 AM, Tobias Hansen wrote: > >> in the last team meeting one topic was OpenGL ES and I think the >> consensus was that we should use it. One of my packages (sludge) will >> support OpenGL ES 2 with the next release. Now I have to decide whether >> the next package will be built with ordinary GL, GLES2 or to provide two >> packages. If we provide both, which one should be the default? >> >> Does Mesa 3D GLES work for all graphics cards for which GLX drivers are >> available in Debian (i.e. is there a choice that works everywhere)? > > I think this would be best discussed with the X Strike Force and with > the maintainers of the non-free drivers (nVidia, fglrx). > > Some thoughts: > > None of the implementations of GLES for embedded GPUs are free, they > are all binary blobs. There have been rumours of open drivers for ages > but none of them ever produced actual code releases. > > Mesa 3D GLES is just an overlay API for Gallium3D, so it probably > where we have mesa using Gallium3D, the API is irrelevant. Probably > the GLES API library is less memory/etc overhead though since it > supports less stuff? > > I think this means that fglrx supports GLES: > > http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=ODU0Nw > > I can't find anything about the nVidia desktop/laptop GPU binary > drivers supporting it. The Tegra mobile GPU ones do though. >
Ok, I'm including debian-x before someone else answers. This mail contains everything that was said so far. Best regards, Tobias -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-x-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4f129ed3.3050...@gmx.de
