How DRM differs from KGI?

[Jerome Glisse]

On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 1:34 PM, PRASANNA KUMAR
<prasanna_tsm_kumar at yahoo.co.in> wrote:
> I came across something called as KGI - kernel graphics interface
> (http://www.kgi-project.org/). It seems it provides the same features as
> KMS. What is the difference between those two? Any specific reason for not
> choosing KGI? I don't know much about KGI so feel free to correct me if I am
> wrong. I think this is the correct mailing list if not just direct me to the
> proper mailing list.
> Thanks,
> PrasannaKumar Muralidharan
>

Difference is that KGI try to do more than modesetting (some kind of
acceleration too) and i don't think they ever try to work with the
community (drm/dri/mesa) which is where pretty much all GPU driver dev
are.

Cheers,
Jerome