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Originally posted by RealNC View PostSomewhere around that. If Wayland ends up being adopted as the new standard for Linux, then I'm not sure what will happen to the binary drivers. Doesn't Wayland require DRI2 and/or Gallium3D? If yes, Catalyst also doesn't support it.Originally posted by 85c51 View Postthey will probably support it once it gets more traction
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Originally posted by Serafean View PostThat is vey wishful thinking. Both companies have repeatedly said that their binary blobs target mainly Workstations. Wayland is meant for desktops/embedded. If OSS drivers die, so does the Linux desktop.
what stops wayland from being used in workstations.
ubuntu will switch to wayland at some point and i am pretty sure the blob people will support it (at least i hope amd will )
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There's also the question of licensing. If the kernel does not provide non-GPL symbols for the KMS interface, then it effectively disallows the blobs to do KMS. But that's an "if", I don't actually know.
In general, KMS in the blobs doesn't sound impossible. They would need glue in form of a kernel module with the actual functionality being provided by the blob.
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Originally posted by RealNC View PostThere's also the question of licensing. If the kernel does not provide non-GPL symbols for the KMS interface, then it effectively disallows the blobs to do KMS. But that's an "if", I don't actually know.
In general, KMS in the blobs doesn't sound impossible. They would need glue in form of a kernel module with the actual functionality being provided by the blob.
might be wrong though
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