From: Paul Lalonde <plalonde@telus.net>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] request for more GSoC project suggestions
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 15:48:09 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <16E537CE-3544-46E7-A969-58CA54C35D87@telus.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49CA96A6.7060201@orcasystems.com>
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I wouldn't even consider a native GL port; it's device driver hell
for an API that I'm hoping will be extinct in the next couple of years.
VMGL looks like it might be a good base. I would like to see it
speak 9p though :-)
Paul
On Mar 25, 2009, at 1:40 PM, James Tomaschke wrote:
>
> Paul Lalonde wrote:
>> I'd like to see a 3D graphics protocol. Then I could run the host
>> on some linux or window or mac box to do the display, and run the
>> graphics app in Plan9, or inferno, or ...
>
> A port of vmgl to Plan9 would be nice for this.
> http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~andreslc/xen-gl/
>
> As for native GL, I'm not sure if there is any hardware option that
> has enough documentation to implement a driver. I was considering
> digging up my old 3dfx card for a miniGL to play with.
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-03-25 22:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-25 15:16 Charles Forsyth
2009-03-25 15:06 ` Devon H. O'Dell
2009-03-26 5:19 ` lucio
2009-03-26 13:18 ` Devon H. O'Dell
2009-03-26 15:03 ` lucio
2009-03-26 15:17 ` lucio
2009-03-25 19:57 ` Paul Lalonde
2009-03-25 20:12 ` Devon H. O'Dell
2009-03-25 20:19 ` erik quanstrom
2009-03-25 20:28 ` Devon H. O'Dell
2009-03-25 20:38 ` Chris Brannon
2009-03-26 0:47 ` erik quanstrom
2009-03-26 1:10 ` Chris Brannon
2009-03-26 2:02 ` Roman Shaposhnik
2009-03-25 20:39 ` Paul Lalonde
2009-03-25 21:12 ` Charles Forsyth
2009-03-26 1:11 ` Roman V. Shaposhnik
2009-03-26 1:51 ` Paul Lalonde
2009-03-26 2:01 ` Roman Shaposhnik
2009-03-26 2:01 ` Devon H. O'Dell
2009-03-25 20:40 ` James Tomaschke
2009-03-25 22:48 ` Paul Lalonde [this message]
2009-03-25 23:20 ` Devon H. O'Dell
2009-03-25 23:26 ` erik quanstrom
2009-03-26 2:03 ` Devon H. O'Dell
2009-03-26 4:43 ` erik quanstrom
2009-03-26 2:05 ` Roman Shaposhnik
2009-03-26 14:21 ` Joel C. Salomon
2009-03-26 15:09 ` Juan M. Mendez
2009-03-26 15:18 ` Devon H. O'Dell
2009-03-26 16:23 ` [9fans] LLVM & Exceptions (Was re. request for more GSoC project suggestions) Joel C. Salomon
2009-03-26 0:09 ` [9fans] request for more GSoC project suggestions Federico G. Benavento
2009-03-26 1:54 ` Devon H. O'Dell
2009-03-26 10:41 ` Charles Forsyth
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