GLX available?

[Adam Jackson]

On Mon, 2008-01-07 at 00:38 -0500, Bernardo Innocenti wrote:
> Randy Heiland wrote:
> > Can someone tell me if GLX is possible on OLPC?  'glinfo' tells me it's 
> > not there.  If so, what's the .rpm?
> 
> Since our GPU cannot support hardware 3D acceleration, and
> we don't even ship libGL, I've disabled the GLX at build
> time in the X server.
> 
> Software based GLX could be made to work, but it would be
> terribly inefficient.  If you have code that renders through
> the GL API, you'd get better performance by rendering
> in-process and then transferring the resulting image to the
> server.

The relevant Trac ticket:

http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/227

Note that Mesa does have a build target that will do software
rasterisation on the client side and push with XPutImage. 

- ajax