On Sun, 2010-05-02 at 11:04 -0700, José Fonseca wrote: > On Sun, 2010-05-02 at 09:34 -0700, Corbin Simpson wrote: > > So I got bored a few days ago and broke ground on a little bit of code > > I've had in mind for a while. This is a new state tracker, Pylladium, > > that acts to expose the core Gallium objects of a driver in a clean, > > Pythonic fashion, without being overly low-level or abstracted away. > > > > So why make another tracker when there's already a great one maintained by > > Jose? > > > > 1) SWIG. The current tracker must be compiled against a pipe driver > > library, and can't dynamically switch between drivers. Additionally, > > it can't be run on any Python besides CPython, which is mostly a > > personal annoyance but something some people honestly have to work > > with. > > This was true at start, but actually this is not strictly true anymore > -- it does not need to be compiled against a pipe driver besides > softpipe/llvmpipe. It uses custom GLX/WGL extensions to use the driver > in system's DLL, but I never got around to implement the GLX extesion on > Linux. (^_^;)
And actually it's very easy to break the existing python state tracker away from softpipe/llvmpipe and use the 'targets' mechanism to construct versions of it above arbitrary gallium drivers. Given the existing abstraction over dri drivers, there could be a single target that layers the python state tracker above any of the DRI drivers. Keith _______________________________________________ mesa-dev mailing list mesa-dev@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/mesa-dev
