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This is not what whot meant. He meant "bare metal" in that Xorg is the display server talking to your input (evdev) and output devices (drm/kms), rather than ru
by arghwhat 3y ago
This is not what whot meant. He meant "bare metal" in that Xorg is the display server talking to your input (evdev) and output devices (drm/kms), rather than running as a rootful or rootless child of another display server as is the case with Xwayland or Xephyr.
A "bare metal" display server can run in VMs, or even in containers (although the latter is a little pointless as the device access violates sandbox safety).
- cassianoleal 3y agoThanks, this is an interesting point-of-view, and thinking back and re-reading the article, it seems you're right. I'll have to say though, I find that particular definition of bare metal quite strange.
- arghwhat 3y agoIt's also a bit of a weird thing to describe. Native? Master? Normal? "Nested" is more or less the de-facto term in Wayland-land for the child scenario (pretty much all Wayland display servers natively support a rootful child mode either as real feature or for testing/debugging, some even under X), but there isn't really a good word for the normal case.