Clutter Picks Up An EvDev Input Back-End, Helps Wayland

[smitty3268]

The aole reason Wayland is viableis because it uses the same drivers as X, all the way down.

Except that it gets rid of the DDX drivers, I believe. (XRender and EXA, etc.)

It just relies on the Mesa 3D drivers and the KMS stuff in the kernel.

That's not an insignificant simplification.

[Prescience500]

Originally Posted by smitty3268

Except that it gets rid of the DDX drivers, I believe. (XRender and EXA, etc.)

It just relies on the Mesa 3D drivers and the KMS stuff in the kernel.

That's not an insignificant simplification.

If this is true, then Wayland could be a decent step toward having good open source graphics drivers.

[liam]

Except that it gets rid of the DDX drivers, I believe. (XRender and EXA, etc.)

It just relies on the Mesa 3D drivers and the KMS stuff in the kernel.

That's not an insignificant simplification.

As I understand it, with OGL you would still need a user mode driver component, but that is intimately tied with OGL design decisions.
I don't recall where I read this so...

Best/Liam