On 21 March 2011 20:25, Jesse Barnes <jbarnes at virtuousgeek.org> wrote: > On Mon, 21 Mar 2011 19:19:43 +0000 > timofonic timofonic <timofonic at 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
