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It's hilarious to me that "KMS" is almost exclusively used to mean "sending OpenGL data to the GPU" and very rarely if ever means "setting the resolution and fr
by phendrenad2 4y ago
It's hilarious to me that "KMS" is almost exclusively used to mean "sending OpenGL data to the GPU" and very rarely if ever means "setting the resolution and frequency mode of a display". Maybe they should change the name to something more meaningful, like "Kernel-side GPU interface" (KSGI)?
- seba_dos1 4y agoKMS isn't concerned with OpenGL at all, that's what Mesa (or other user-space driver) implements. KMS is needed to present on the screen. You may be confusing KMS with DRM, which KMS is just a small part of.
- phendrenad2 4y agoNote that I said "is almost exclusively used to mean" and not "means". ;)