Re: Updating xorg-x11-server

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On Fri, Sep 6, 2024 at 1:47 PM Sérgio Basto <sergio@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 2024-09-05 at 18:54 +0200, Neal Gompa wrote:
> > My understanding is the reason we hadn't was because of the NVIDIA
> > binary driver. For the desktops that still use X11 and the X11 DDX
> > instead of the modesetting driver, that could be a problem if the ABI
> > broke.
>
> Here it says, some NVIDIA binary driver needs X11 DDX , that why I
> wrote that seems possible re-add X11 DDX
>
> https://www.phoronix.com/news/DMX-DDX-Dropping-2021
> https://www.phoronix.com/news/X.Org-DMX-Dropped
>
> https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/-/commit/b3b81c8c2090cd49410960a021baf0d27fdd2ab3

DDX refers to Device-Dependent-X11 driver, the NVIDIA driver provides
its own binary module for it. Of course, it's also not necessary if
the NVIDIA driver exposes kernel modesetting, then the regular
modesetting DDX that Xorg uses by default should be sufficient.

DMX is something else entirely.



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