[Pkg-fglrx-devel] including both GL/gl.h and cogl/cogl.h fails on armel and armhf

[Josselin Mouette]

Hi, and happy new year to all.

We’re currently discussing of the opportunity to switch cogl/clutter to
use GLES instead of GL. However the case of nvidia & fglrx arose.

Le samedi 31 décembre 2011 à 14:43 +0100, Josselin Mouette a écrit : 
> Le samedi 31 décembre 2011 à 14:16 +0100, Julien Cristau a écrit : 
> > The other option, which might make everyone happy, is to just switch to
> > GLES on all platforms.  Needs a lot of testing to make sure the desktop
> > doesn't break horribly, but at least it won't have stupid special cases.
> 
> Since cogl and clutter don’t use advanced GL functions at all, this is
> the most reasonable choice and should probably be a long-term goal.
> 
> However, DRI drivers support GLES, but at the moment this is not the
> case of proprietary nvidia and fglrx drivers on x86, which only provide
> GL. Breaking proprietary drivers on x86 to make proprietary drivers work
> on arm doesn’t sound like a great plan.

Do you know whether nVidia and AMD have any plans about releasing GLES
drivers on their x86 platforms? This would help making a correct
decision.

Thanks,
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