Hi Kevin, On 26 August 2016 at 01:19, Kevin Brace <kevinbrace at gmx.com> wrote:
> I do not want to be seen as stopping progress, but there are still people who > use less than current hardware (myself and countless others) or non Big 3 x86 > graphics (NVIDIA, AMD, and Intel) for things like thin clients. [snip] > Anyway, regarding the move to DRI2 / KMS so that DRI1 can be discontinued, I > am not personally against it in the long run, but the work on it has stalled. > Afaict nobody is discontinuing DRI1, but marking it as BROKEN. Why you may ask - simply because there has been virtually zero development effort (general refactoring do not count) and serious testing, for those drivers over the last 5+ years. FWIW I would strongly recommend leaving UMS at peace and working towards KMS. Having a hybrid UMS/KMS stack is possible, but it's far too picky and time consuming even for larger teams. On the forward porting efforts - DRM evolves rapidly so one could consider starting from scratch. Wire up the (atomic?) mode setting side first then think about the render side of things. Regards, Emil
