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[Xen-devel] Accellerated windows graphics drivers


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  • From: "James Harper" <james.harper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 11:40:29 +1100
  • Delivery-date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 04:02:35 -0700
  • List-id: Xen developer discussion <xen-devel.lists.xensource.com>
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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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