Calling interested Glamo OpenGL developers (was: The forbidden topic: Glamo OpenGL)

Jacob Peterson jacobp at iastate.edu
Mon Nov 17 18:29:42 CET 2008


On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 6:12 PM, Aliner <linermedia at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 12:06 PM, Graeme Gregory <graeme at openmoko.org>wrote:
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>> On Mon, 2008-11-17 at 11:58 -0500, Aliner wrote:
>> > If we work on having x.org server working on the FR, wouldn't that
>> > help for whatever comes next?. At least we would have some working
>> > knowledge on how to develop drivers for X, and a team of programmers
>> > with ample knowledge on all things regarding the x.org Server.
>> >
>> > I mean, the thing is modularized. Is it not simpler to just replace
>> > the glamo driver with the [whatever\] driver?
>> >
>>
>> Basically yes, the advantages of Xorg are active development and
>> familiarity with developers as comapred to kdrive based stuff.
>>
>> At the moment Xorg with tslib/fbdev drivers works well on GTA02
>> my task now is to make a glamo driver for Xorg based on the Xglamo
>> code.
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> Do you have the instructions to build Xorg with the toolchain?
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>> Graeme
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I thought Debian on the FR started with X by default?  Testing that would
give you a quick comparison if you didn't feel like building X.  Also,
kdrive is part of Xorg now, so you just simply pass it the --enable-kdrive
flag at compile time according to information at freedesktop.org [1].

-Jacob

[1] http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/Xserver
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