Editing Xgl (section)

===Xegl ===
''Xegl'' was a long-term goal of X server development.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Smirl|first1=Jon|title=The State of Linux Graphics|url=https://sites.google.com/site/jonsmirl/graphics|access-date=18 February 2016|date=30 August 2005}}</ref> It shares much of the drawing code with the Xglx server, but the initialization of the OpenGL drawable and context management is handled by the EGL API developed by Khronos (EGL is a window system-independent equivalent to the GLX and WGL APIs, which respectively enable OpenGL support in X and Microsoft Windows).  The current implementation uses [[Mesa 3D|Mesa-solo]] to provide OpenGL rendering directly to the [[Linux framebuffer]] or [[Direct Rendering Infrastructure|DRI]] to the graphics hardware.  {{As of|2024|alt=As of May 2024}}, Xegl can only be run using [[Radeon R200]] graphics hardware and development is currently stalled.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=xorg/xserver.git;a=history;h=master;hb=master;f=hw/xgl/egl/xegl.c |title = cgit.freedesktop.org http git virtual host|website=Gitweb.freedesktop.org}}</ref>  It is likely that it will remain so until the Xglx server has proven itself and the closed source drivers add support for the EGL API, when it should be a transparent replacement for the nested Xglx server.