Report: SGI Linux University

[Datawolf]

Mesa is not complete.  I know that it is currently missing nurbs
functionality, and probably some other things.  Basically, it is a
subset of the OpenGL library.

SGI already has their own complete OpenGL library (they are the official
maintainers of OpenGL), so it is probably better and easier for them to
simply port their version.

Did they say whether they would open source their OpenGL library?

-BVG

James Amendolagine wrote:
> 
> I sent this earlier, but it didn't seem to get through.
> 
> Here's what I got out of it:
> 
> I'm into OpenGL so I was most  concerned about that.
> 
>  -They are coming out with a linux graphics PC that should be out in May
> 
>      - It will cost about $2500
>      - The PC is mostly just standard stuff except the video card which
>          is SGI's own version of the NVIDIA GForce or Quatro.
>      - The linux driver for the card will work with other vendors
>        versions of the card ie. from Sound Blaster,
>          -- but -- since their card will have some custom SGI chips, the
>          driver will enable extra features for their hardware.
>      - The guy doing the OpenGL demo was not really all that up-to-date
>        about mesa (OpenGL clone). He said that there
>        was no hardware accel in Mesa -- Not true GLX UTAH has accel
>        for ATI, Matrox, S3, Intel Nvidia (week accell)
>         -- did I miss any? + 3dfx has had accel for years.
>      - They will be using their own version of OpenGL. No mention of
>        helping out Mesa. --That's too bad.
>         - Hopefuly the problem was just that the guy who gave the
>           OpenGL talk didn't quite know what their stand was.
>         - In the morning introduction, a different speaker was
>           saying that SGI was doing their best not to fragment linux. So they
>           offered their kernel code to the comunity, and would throw
>           away any code that was not accepted by the community.
>            -- it would be nice if they would do something similar with
>               OpenGL / Mesa.
> 
> Jamie
> 
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