On 21 March 2011 20:25, Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, 21 Mar 2011 19:19:43 +0000 > timofonic timofonic <timofonic@xxxxxxxxx> 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? ÂAll three major GPU device classes have KMS support > (Intel, ATI, and nVidia). ÂIf you want it for a particular device, you > can always port it over. > > As for fbdev emulation, what's still using it? ÂThere'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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fbdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
