wine users - Nov 2009 - DirectX and Gallium3d question

Hi! In the current implementation of DirectX (or more specifically, D3D,
DirectDraw..), Wine converts it to OpenGL, which I assume was a choice that
seemed logical since only OpenGL could be accelerated in Linux and Unix systems
before. But in Gallium3d, if I understood it right, the API's like OpenGL,
OpenCL, and so on, are just implemented as "addons" (maybe wrong
term?) in Gallium3d itselft, and drivers don't really have to deal with
them; they just deal with some GPU-specific things in order to get acceleration.

So now for my question. Wouldn't it be better to target Gallium3d, and make
"addons" for it, like Direct3d 9/10, DirectDraw and so on? Since the
video drivers themselves don't have to deal with this, it should be fairly
easy to add this support and get acceleration that way. It seems like a cleaner
and more compatible way to deal with the graphical parts of DirectX than
converting them to OpenGL, and all Gallium3d-supported GPU's would have
acceleration.

If any developer or any other person who's knowledgeable in these fields is
reading this, what do you think? Is this being discussed/worked on?

Denise

denseweird number 1 Gallium3d project is not just about Opengl.

Gallium3d is not supported by every card and some cards will never be supported.
So opengl part will always been required for some people.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallium3D  and
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NzcxMQ  are important
reads.

vmware is doing a lot of work on Gallium3d.  Now talking to them would be a wise
first step.  Ie why develop alone if we could share development with vmware. 
Thinking vmware and others currently use wined3d to redirect direct x to opengl
on windows.   So if vmware and others are going to redesign that hello joint
project.

Its more the issue of resources, stablity and doing deniseweird.   Lot of
Galllium3d drivers need to mature as well.

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NzcxMA  This swap event
thing here will also appear in KMS.

Basically its too early to call the way forwards and who will be doing it
deniseweird.