From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] lucio- now: student projects From: andrey mirtchovski MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <20020312145817.641D519A04@mail.cse.psu.edu> Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 07:59:44 -0700 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 654e531c-eaca-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 > 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