[openbeos] Re: MESA

  • From: "Nathan Whitehorn" <nathan.whitehorn@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2003 12:38:48 -0500

> On Tue, 18 Mar 2003, Nathan Whitehorn wrote:
> 
> > Just so you guys know: MESA has a BeOS layer and is binary 
> > compatible 
> > with BeOS Apps. (It has a BC version of BGLView, etc.). I just got 
> > it 
> > compiling and running on PPC. It works very well. So if you want 
> > OpenGL...
> 
> Yes. I guessit was Philippe Houdin who did it. It lacks HW 
> acceleration 
> though.

The DRI project has hardware drivers for it. It's a good place to 
begin, at least. And its software rasterizer is faster than Be's.
-Nathan


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