ARK Logic X.Org Driver Sees 2023 Update For 90's PCI Video Card

[Lycanthropist]

Actually it kinda does, in the sense that it has to be maintained. One of the reasons for Wayland's existence is because of older technology holding back newer devices.l

The maintainance is insignificant to all other development going on in the Linux graphics stack. Also this driver being present does't prevent you from using Wayland, Vulkan and all the other modern graphics technologies on newer devices. It's not holding back anything.

[caligula]

Nobody forces you to use it if you think it's to insecure for you.

Standard distro kernels have most support built in.

[Lycanthropist]

Standard distro kernels have most support built in.

And? The driver is not used if you don't have the hardware.

[kn00tcn]

the important question is what does western digital have to do with a video card

Much of the mid-to-late 1980s saw an effort by Western Digital to use the profits from their ATA storage controllers to become a general-purpose OEM hardware supplier for the PC industry. As a result, Western Digital purchased a number of hardware companies. These included graphics cards (through its Paradise subsidiary, purchased 1986, which became Western Digital Imaging), core logic chipsets (by purchasing Faraday Electronics Inc. in 1987), SCSI controller chips for disk and tape devices (by purchasing ADSI in 1986), networking (WD8003, WD8013 Ethernet and WD8003S StarLAN). They did well (especially Paradise, which produced one of the best VGA cards of the era), but storage-related chips and disk controllers were their biggest money makers.

one of the best cards? citation needed, if paradise is so great then why is there no wiki page

[caligula]

And? The driver is not used if you don't have the hardware.

Huh, you're new to Linux? Nothing in the kernel is nicely isolated to externally loaded modules. You'll need tons of shared code built in the kernel to even be able to modprobe UMS drivers. Even if you don't have a GPU plugged in, the UMS framework code is loaded anyways.

[Lycanthropist]

Huh, you're new to Linux? Nothing in the kernel is nicely isolated to externally loaded modules. You'll need tons of shared code built in the kernel to even be able to modprobe UMS drivers. Even if you don't have a GPU plugged in, the UMS framework code is loaded anyways.

It is loaded, but not used unless your drives uses the UMS framework.