----- Original Message ----- > On Mit, 2012-02-29 at 16:06 -0800, Benoit Jacob wrote: > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > On Die, 2012-02-28 at 09:08 -0800, Benoit Jacob wrote: > > > > > > > > At Mozilla we've been wondering if we could get a good software > > > > fallback for users who can't get hardware-accelerated WebGL. > > > > Mesa > > > > llvmpipe seems like the best open source OpenGL renderer, > > > > right? At > > > > least, it performed superbly in our quick tests. > > > > > > [...] > > > > > > > 3. On GNU/Linux: why isn't Mesa llvmpipe installed by default > > > > by > > > > most > > > > distros? Is there a real reason or is it just that nobody asked > > > > for > > > > it, or nobody saw a need for it? Trying to figure if llvmpipe > > > > installed by default everywhere (on Linux) is something we can > > > > realistically hope for. > > > > > > One thing to keep in mind for this is that llvmpipe currently > > > doesn't > > > work on PowerPC architectures > > > > PowerPC is not a big concern for us. > > https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Supported_build_configurations > > > > Besides x86 and x86-64, the other arch we care about is ARM (v7 and > > soon v6 too). > > E.g. Debian ships your browser on powerpc and many more > architectures.
Well, each project does their own choice of which architectures to support; Debian is famous for its very wide architecture support, while Mozilla is currently focusing on only a few architectures. Notice that WebGL renderers are only a drop in the bucket of what one has to do to support "the modern web" on a given architecture. For example, Mozilla is not currently supporting PPC in its JavaScript JIT compilers. If one wanted to support "the modern web" on PPC, supporting JavaScript JIT would be a much more important thing to do, before it would start making sense to focus on WebGL rendering. Cheers, Benoit _______________________________________________ mesa-dev mailing list mesa-dev@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/mesa-dev
