On 21 March 2011 20:25, Jesse Barnes jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org wrote:
On Mon, 21 Mar 2011 19:19:43 +0000 timofonic timofonic timofonic@gmail.com wrote:
So if KMS is so cool and provides many advantages over fbdev and such... Why isn't more widely used intead of still relying on fbdev? Why still using fbdev emulation (that is partial and somewhat broken, it seems) instead using KMS directly?
Used by what? All three major GPU device classes have KMS support (Intel, ATI, and nVidia). If you want it for a particular device, you can always port it over.
As for fbdev emulation, what's still using it? There's nothing stopping projects from converting over; X and Wayland can already handle KMS APIs just fine.
The console and a few terminal emulators for it I guess.
Thanks
Michal