DRI2 Direct Rendering Now Available

Back on the 4th of February, Kristian Høgsberg began merging his new DRI2 components. This initial DRI2 (Direct Rendering Infrastructure 2) work was made up of the DRI2 module, glxdri2 to GLX, and DRM/Mesa patches. Today Kristian has merged his last major part of DRI2 and that is the direct rendering support. With this new code, it's now possible to do directed rendering to redirected windows! This directed rendering to redirected windows support even works with Compiz and other OpenGL window managers using the GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap extension. However, to reach this state the DRI interface was broken. Kristian's announcement can be read on the DRI devel mailing list. The only X.Org video driver using DRI2 right now is the Intel batchbuffer branch for xf86-video-intel.