Phoronix: DRM Change Continues To Cause Debate
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Originally posted by V!NCENT View PostWould these changes require nVidia and ATI to support this architecture in their proprietary drivers?
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Originally posted by srg_13 View PostDid you read the article? They're just changing how the code is organised, not any interfaces that the drivers actually have to use. It will make very little difference in the grand scheme of things, apart from hopefully making the code easier to maintain.With so much of the Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) work going straight into the Linux kernel [...] With this message, Kristian created a new DRM repository that dropped all of the linux-core, bsd-core, and shared-core code.
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No, it wont.
The only thing that happened was that the kernel portions of libdrm were removed from the repository (because it's already being maintained elsewhere, in kernel). So now the libdrm repository is essentially just the userspace component.
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