D3D via Gallium

[Chris Robinson]

On Tuesday, September 21, 2010 7:06:30 am Zachary Goldberg wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I found the following article/commit very interesting this morning.
> Has anybody else been looking at this and put thought into whether it
> will work with Wine?

IIRC, it's been discussed before, and it simply wouldn't work. D3D has too 
many ties to the Windows API that a non-Windows based implementation wouldn't 
be appropriate for Wine (try getting an HDC from a D3D resource, or passing an 
HWND to D3D). Gallium would have to substitute these for X11 resources, or 
custom resources that tie into X, so wouldn't reflect the Wine's internal 
state.

Additionally, not all drivers will support Gallium (eg. nVidia binaries), so a 
D3D10->GL path will still be needed.