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RE: [Xen-devel] Accellerated windows graphics drivers

To: "Tim Deegan" <Tim.Deegan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: [Xen-devel] Accellerated windows graphics drivers
From: "James Harper" <james.harper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 22:52:35 +1100
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> At 11:40 +1100 on 12 Mar (1205322029), James Harper wrote:
> > Has anyone ever seriously thought about implementing a 3d
acceleration
> > driver for windows (or linux too I guess)?
> 
> Have you seen http://www.diku.dk/hjemmesider/ansatte/jacobg/gfx/ ?
> 

That looks interesting, but it appears that to do nothing to accelerate
3D calls in the DomU, it just exposes the DomU framebuffers into Dom0's
texture buffer memory. I'm not sure I completely understand it though,
so I may have got it completely wrong.

James

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