Linux kernel and OpenGL video games
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Linux kernel and OpenGL video games
2014-03-02
Shmuel Csaba Otto Traian Xerxes
Shmuel Csaba Otto Traian Xerxes
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Linux gaming
Linux as gaming platform
system call
Linux kernel userspace API
OpenGL
Illustrates the correlation between a 3D computer game, the Simple DirectMedia Layer, Mesa 3D, the GNU C Library, the Linux kernel System Call Interface and the underlying hardware.
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by Shmuel Csaba Otto Traian; GNU FDL 1.3+ and CC-BY-SA 3.0+; created 2014-03-02, last updated 2015-05-30
Windowinglibrary (SDL,GLFW, etc.)
Memorymanager
OtherLinux kernelsubsystems
SystemRAM
CPU
System Call Interface (SCI)
Devices
Hardware
Linux kernel
GNUC Library
3Dcomputergame
DRM
GPU
Mesa 3D
Subroutines
DRMlibrary
OpenGL
Processscheduler
GraphicsRAM
Displaycontroller
KMS
Screen
Game engine
Geometrydata
Texturedata
Sounddata
subroutinecalls
system calls
OpenGL commands orshaders written in GLSL(vertex, tessellation control, tessellation evaluation,geometry, fragment and compute shaders)