Gallium

http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/gallium/

Gallium3D其实是一个接口层，解耦上层操作与驱动之间的联系：

主要接口

• pipe_context 结构体(p_context.h), 其中定义了和context相关的函数集，这些函数主要包括如下功能：

  • Setting rendering state (texture sampler state, blending state, rasterization state, vertex array info, drawing surfaces, etc.)
  • Setting shader state, using the TGSI binary shader representation.
  • Vertex array and indexed vertex array drawing.

• pipe_screen结构体，包含与context无关的信息和函数集

  • Creating textures (and drawing surfaces)
  • Getting “views” into textures
  • Hardware queries (number of texture units, max texture size, etc).
  • Creating generic memory buffers
  • Mapping/unmapping buffers
  • Fencing

• 另外还有一些数据结构定义在p_state.h中

  • Graphics state (blending, texture sampling, rasterization)
  • Texture and surface resources
  • Vertex array layout

State tracker

It’s responsible for translating Mesa state (blend modes, texture state, etc) and drawing commands (like glDrawArrays and glDrawPixels) into pipe objects and operations.

Traditional fixed-function OpenGL components (such as lighting and texture combining) are implemented with shaders. OpenGL commands such as glDrawPixels are translated into textured quadrilateral rendering. Basica