Re: Future desktop on dumb frame buffers?

On 21 March 2011 20:25, Jesse Barnes [off-list ref] wrote:

On Mon, 21 Mar 2011 19:19:43 +0000
timofonic timofonic [off-list ref] wrote:

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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