Question about the future of Xorg

[Vladimir Dergachev]

On Fri, 13 Jun 2025, Alan Coopersmith wrote:

> On 6/12/25 06:44, Vladimir Dergachev wrote:
>> Also, before I only had to worry whether Xorg has drivers for my video 
>> card, but now it is the question of whether kwin or enlightenment has it.
>
> Every Wayland compositor I've seen relies on the kernel drivers for video 
> cards,
> instead of trying to do them in user-space as XFree86 and the early 
> generations
> of Xorg did.  This is part of what limits Wayland from working on some other
> kernels, that don't have these drivers ported, but shouldn't be a problem on
> mainstream Linux & BSD kernels.

Right, Carsten explained it to me. I had a mental picture of equivalent of 
Xserver doing mode setting calls and writing to registers, as I remember 
it from way back.

thanks

Vladimir Dergachev

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