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3-4 years? You mean 6-7 years. It's 2017 not 2014, and anyone running that processor needs to upgrade, period. There might be something to be said for holding onto it if it was desktop parts (though in that case you plug in a graphics card and problem solved) but the early Atoms (this is a 2010 Atom part) were so slow that nothing really ran particularly well on them at the time, and I can't imagine how horrible they are now.
I really meant 3-4 years. I have company mails from 2012 January when a back-then brand new POS hardware that was still in the prototype phase used PineView. Don't ask for the exact model, I won't tell. I guess Intel had to clean out the warehouse backlog.
I wouldn't exactly call that "slight". It sucks that there's no way for Wayland to utilize dedicated 2D hardware and instead has to emulated it inefficiently with 3D.
I wouldn't exactly call that "slight". It sucks that there's no way for Wayland to utilize dedicated 2D hardware and instead has to emulated it inefficiently with 3D.
Well that's the thing, providing that I'm not mistaken on how Wayland and SNA works, it won't affect Wayland. Considering Fedora is focusing on Wayland as default, there's no point in Fedora maintaining the driver.
EDIT: AFAIK in regard to how Wayland works, this "emulation" is only used by XWayland, not native applications.
Last edited by Mystro256; 10 January 2017, 04:32 PM.
degasus, well, if what is shown by synthetic benchmarks was the remaining stronghold of SNA, perhaps indeed with the latest versions (intel, xserver) this is not true anymore.
Am I missing something? The last xf86-video-modesetting release dates back to 2014-06-26 (https://www.x.org/archive/individual/driver/), that is a good six months before the last xf86-video-intel 2.99.917 released on 2014-12-21. Looking at xf86-video-modesetting's git repo, I don't see any commits in the last two years. Why is everyone switching to it, if it's, at least according to release and commit activity, a dormant, if not a dead, project???
Am I missing something? The last xf86-video-modesetting release dates back to 2014-06-26 (https://www.x.org/archive/individual/driver/), that is a good six months before the last xf86-video-intel 2.99.917 released on 2014-12-21. Looking at xf86-video-modesetting's git repo, I don't see any commits in the last two years. Why is everyone switching to it, if it's, at least according to release and commit activity, a dormant, if not a dead, project???
Modesetting is a part of the xserver now, and has been since ~1.17 I think. Check this commit from August 2014:
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