Re: HARDWARE: Open-Source-Friendly Graphics Cards -- Viable?

[Francois Romieu]

Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> :
[...]
> > 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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