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From: Paul Lalonde <plalonde@telus.net>
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 15:48:09 -0700
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] request for more GSoC project suggestions
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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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