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Whoa wait, we are really supposed to replace X with something that only works on Linux? Way to give BSD guys the middle finger.
by pkmays 15y ago
Whoa wait, we are really supposed to replace X with something that only works on Linux? Way to give BSD guys the middle finger.
- FooBarWidget 15y agoOr the BSD guys can implement the required infrastructure and bring their kernels to the modern era, instead of requiring userspace programs to hack around their lack of features. The only people giving the BSD guys the finger is themselves.
- rjsw 15y agoThe problem is that the only documentation for the "required infrastructure" is the Linux source itself which is constantly changing.
- johntb86 15y agoI doubt that the BSD infrastructure has to match the Linux infrastructure exactly for the Wayland protocol to work on it. Mostly what it has to do is mode-setting in the kernel, enable sharing of graphics buffers between processes, and allowing libkms and mesa to work on top of it. The exact kernel api shouldn't matter for most applications.
- rjsw 15y agoX is rapidly becoming a system that only works well on Linux.
- binarycrusader 15y agoNo, X works just fine on other platforms thank you very much. Now GNOME and other things are a different story.
- rjsw 15y agoTry using a recent model AMD graphics card, you will only get hardware acceleration when running X on Linux.
- binarycrusader 15y agoThat's a driver; has nothing to do with X itself. Consider that the nVidia driver works on Solaris, FreeBSD, and Linux. Therefore accelerated X works there as well.
- lmm 15y agoAIUI X on FreeBSD depends on HAL, X support for which is now deprecated? I haven't had any trouble yet, but I'm worried.