Originally posted by d2kx
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Even though KMS is pretty much here, it will still be a while before the need for user modesetting goes away since most of the enterprise distro users will be running pre-KMS kernels for a couple of years. I don't expect you'll see the first release of a KMS-enabled enterprise distro until some time in 2010, and realistically we need to keep user modesetting supported until a good chunk of the enterprise distro installed base is running with KMS-enabled kernel code.
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