Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2004 19:20:37 +0200
From: Francois Romieu <romieu@fr.zoreil.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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       Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>,
       Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: HARDWARE: Open-Source-Friendly Graphics Cards -- Viable?
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Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> :
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> > Another advantage is that a simple "do GL" interface is much more 
> > "future-proof" interface, since it is a very high level interface.
> 
> Not really, we are heading towards real time raytrace and the hardware
> and low level changes dramatically for that (including wanting to do non
> light traces for audio mixing, explosion models etc)

Just curious: how would it prevent to push standardization through OpenGL
extensions if needed ?

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Ueimor
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