by Philipp Klaus Krause <pkk@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
Jul 8, 2008 at 10:21 PM
MohanParthasarathy schrieb:
> Hi,
>
> I am pretty new to OpenGL. After trying out a few examples, i
> downloaded the Mesa source code and looked at the 3D driver (ATI :
> r300) to see what operations are typically accelerated. I guess that
> this
> is not a simple task that can be done quickly with so many
> indirections in the code :-) Some are obvious where ctx->Driver
> functions are initialized by the driver. Then there are the software
> fallback modules vbo etc. also that initializes the Driver functions.
> For example, i was trying to see if the Vertex operations like
> glVertex2f() are accelerated. I was unable to find it out. Is there a
> good do***ent that describes how the 3D driver acceleration works ? I
> searched but could not find a do***ent describing this. Any help on
> this would be appreciated.
You might have more success asking this on the mesa3d-dev list. AFAIK
the intel drivers are said to be the easiest to understand, so you might
want to look at them in addition to or instead of r300.
Philipp
