On Mon, 2012-06-25 at 16:16 +0200, Olav Vitters wrote: > On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 10:05:10AM -0400, Adam Jackson wrote: > > On Mon, 2012-06-25 at 09:05 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote: > > > One example is ppc - no llvm support on that architecture... > > > > Or s390 (anymore) or arm (effectively). Honestly I'm coming to resent > > How often is software rendering needed in those cases (s390, ppc, arm)? s390s don't have video cards, but do run Xvnc. So, always. ppc tends to have a PCI bus. Modern blade kinds of machines tend to have server GPUs, which pretty much uniformly don't have 3D engines. Every PCI PPC Mac had a 3D-capable GPU, although nobody ever got around to doing a 3D driver for imstt(4), and the ATI Rage 128 is no longer supported in Mesa, so low-end kit might struggle. The high end GPU for that class of machines was somewhere around a GeForce 6600, which certainly works on PC machines; the caveat is big-endian is basically non-existent on client hardware anymore so it's probably untested. ARM tends to have non-PCI integrated graphics, and the drivers tend to be non-free, and even the non-free ones tend to be terrible. So, depressingly often. - ajax
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