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[Xen-devel] Accellerated windows graphics drivers

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Subject: [Xen-devel] Accellerated windows graphics drivers
From: "James Harper" <james.harper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 11:40:29 +1100
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Thread-topic: Accellerated windows graphics drivers
Has anyone ever seriously thought about implementing a 3d acceleration
driver for windows (or linux too I guess)? I imagine that you would need
the following components:

1. a windows frontend driver that handles directx calls from Windows and
puts them on a ring for the backend
2. a linux backend driver that gets these requests and passes them to a
userspace application
3. a special linux X xen console driver (eg not VNC) that handles these
requests and converts them to GL calls

Doesn't sound like a particularly small job...

James

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