Here’s some very exciting news coming out of the Google Chromium OS team for upstream work they continue making to Mesa… They have enabled GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap in the software drivers! This means that it may now be possible to use compositing window managers nicely from the Gallium3D software drivers like LLVMpipe and Softpipe on your CPU, in case your graphics processor doesn’t have hardware acceleration available…
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