[Lima] Difference to the blob / atomic modesetting

[Neil Armstrong]

Hi Thomas,

On 22/10/2020 13:08, Thomas Rohloff wrote:
> Hi,
> I asked the CoreELEC devs for the (feature) differences between lima and the 4.9 blob driver with a highlight on atomic modesetting as it seems the blob doesn't use that. They told me to ask you directly, so I'm doing that in here.

The atomic modesetting (by it's name) is the responsability of the Display Driver.

The blob compiled for GBM, X11 or Wayland are used with an atomic modesetting DRM driver, we are running Kodi using the blob with the GBM or Wayland backend for a while now.

Neil

> I'm doing all this in the hope to get CoreELEC devs to switch from the 4.9 kernel to upstream, replacing the blob with Lima while doing so.>
> Thanks in advance for your replies,
> Thomas
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