On Tue, 7 Mar 2000, James Simmons wrote:
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> > > > I'm interested in also setting up Z
> > > > and alpha buffers. How would I go about doing that ?
> >
> > Basically same thing ... add a function to allocate them to the kernel
> > driver and them mmap. We should talk about a generic API for re
On Tue, 7 Mar 2000, James Simmons wrote:
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> > >I have been looking at Mesa-GGI and libGGI. Do you think it would be
> > > possible to add a triangle function?
> >
> > Yes, but the triangle function is added in an extension library
> > because the base LibGGI drawing functions are all
Hi !
> > hardware auxiliary buffer, you will either need to have a kernel driver
> > which can let userspace mmap() the physical aperture, or do some suid-root
> Neither. The SGI approach of not mmaping these buffers.
This only works for the nice SGI hardware. I perfectly agree, that it has
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Hi !
> > > > I'm interested in also setting up Z
> > > > and alpha buffers. How would I go about doing that ?
> > Basically same thing ... add a function to allocate them to the kernel
> > driver and them mmap. We should talk about a generic API for requesting
> > such extra features, though.
>
On Tue, 7 Mar 2000, James Simmons wrote:
>
> > >I have been looking at Mesa-GGI and libGGI. Do you think it would be
> > > possible to add a triangle function?
> >
> > Yes, but the triangle function is added in an extension library
> > because the base LibGGI drawing functions are all
> >I have been looking at Mesa-GGI and libGGI. Do you think it would be
> > possible to add a triangle function?
>
> Yes, but the triangle function is added in an extension library
> because the base LibGGI drawing functions are all basic 2D "essential"
> primitives only. Currently
> > > I'm interested in also setting up Z
> > > and alpha buffers. How would I go about doing that ?
>
> Basically same thing ... add a function to allocate them to the kernel
> driver and them mmap. We should talk about a generic API for requesting
> such extra features, though.
No mmap. Yuk
> >I have been looking at Mesa-GGI and libGGI. Do you think it would be
> > possible to add a triangle function?
> Yes, but the triangle function is added in an extension library
> because the base LibGGI drawing functions are all basic 2D "essential"
> primitives only.
Correct.
>
On Mon, 6 Mar 2000, James Simmons wrote:
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> Hi!!
>
>I have been looking at Mesa-GGI and libGGI. Do you think it would be
> possible to add a triangle function?
Yes, but the triangle function is added in an extension library
because the base LibGGI drawing functions are all basic
