Utah GLX

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Utah GLX parallel to 2D drivers. Only indirect rendering over GLX is possible.

Utah GLX was a project aimed at creating a fully free and open-source basic hardware-accelerated 3D rendering for XFree86 and OpenGL before the introduction of the Direct Rendering Infrastructure in XFree86 version 4.0, which is what is used today.

History

2D drivers inside of the X server
Indirect rendering over GLX, using Utah GLX
early Direct Rendering Infrastructure
Finally all access goes through the Direct Rendering Manager
In Linux kernel 3.12 render nodes were merged and the KMS was split of. Wayland implements direct rendering over EGL

External links

Utah-GLX Homepage

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