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From: andrey mirtchovski <andrey@lanl.gov>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] lucio- now: student projects
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 07:59:44 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020312145817.641D519A04@mail.cse.psu.edu> (raw)

> 1)	What would be the "plan 9-ish" way to utilize 3-D hardware graphics
> 	support? To make available (something like) OpenGL?
> 	(Since just about everything has got 3-D support nowadays....)

I got libGL and libGLU (from Mesa3D) to compile using pcc, I even
started looking at a native compile couple of weeks ago but other,
more important things, got in the way.  What would be a nice student
project (IMHO) would be to write a P9 driver for Mesa3D's GL. I looked
at the SVGA and X86 drivers and they appear relatively easy to manage.
 From the XaoS port that dpx@lanl fixed couple of weeks ago we found
that double buffering is possible in P9 and it's not completely and
utterly slow, so..  :)

In fact I wanted to do that as a student project a year and a half
ago, but someone offered 'do bioinformatics with p9' since
bioinformatics was all the rage at the time ...  *shudder*...


regards, andrey



             reply	other threads:[~2002-03-12 14:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-03-12 14:59 andrey mirtchovski [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-03-12 12:28 forsyth
2002-03-12 12:04 Richard Miller
2002-03-12 10:13 forsyth
2002-03-12 13:08 ` Martin C.Atkins
2002-03-05  0:10 [9fans] lucio- geoff
2002-03-11 10:05 ` Luis Fernandes
2002-03-12  7:17   ` [9fans] lucio- now: student projects Martin C.Atkins

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