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Glxinfo: OpenGL :: Chromium render string

$ glxinfo | grep rend

direct rendering: Yes
OpenGL renderer string: Chromium

What does "Chrome" mean in context glxinfo

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I have seen something like "Mesa DRI Intel" or "software" etc. before. Should this be something new?

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No, this is something very old. It is basically open source chrome (not to be confused with the Google browser of the same name).

Chromium provides a common framework for Streaming and maniuplation stream redirection. One of the main goals of chrome has been to provide transparent middleware for distributed rendering. However, the project has been more or less dead since 2009.



Parts of chrome have been used by other projects. The most likely place to see this chrome line is the opengl VirtualBox layer, which uses a chrome portion of the OpenGL library and dispatch mechanism to forward OpenGL calls from guest to host.

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