SDL 2.0.6 Released With Vulkan Helpers, DRM/KMS Driver

[phoronix]

Phoronix: SDL 2.0.6 Released With Vulkan Helpers, DRM/KMS Driver

SDL 2.0.6 was released on Friday as the latest feature update for this widely-used library that allows for more cross-platform portability of applications and games centered around input, audio, and video helpers...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=SDL-2.0.6-Arrives

[khnazile]

Doesn't compile with GCC 4.8 anymore...

[Kemosabe]

Doesn't compile with GCC 4.8 anymore...

Good news! More people will be forced to get rid of ancient technology.

[timofonic]

Good news! More people will be forced to get rid of ancient technology.

I agree. If their operating systems have old GCC versions (AmigaOS4? BSD? OS/2?), then they should port the last one and sent them for upstream merging...

[microcode]

Yes! I didn't know they were going to integrate the DRM driver, this makes me pumped. I wonder if it has evdev or libinput for input events. I guess I'll find out.


Update: Looks like there's some funky behaviour with the video/kmsdrm driver on RadeonSI, it'd be cool to suss this out.

[Vistaus]

I agree. If their operating systems have old GCC versions (AmigaOS4? BSD? OS/2?), then they should port the last one and sent them for upstream merging...

I think AmigaOS 4 will receive a newer GCC version as AmigaOS Classic is currently at 6.0: https://www.generationamiga.com/2017...ssic-released/

[timofonic]

I think AmigaOS 4 will receive a newer GCC version as AmigaOS Classis is currently at 6.0: https://www.generationamiga.com/2017...ssic-released/

Will there be much delay to have GCC 7.20+? What about future GCC 8? What about MorphOS?

Having an up-to-date compiler is a great advantage and it makes platforms to stay alive, despite how legacy they can be in many ways.

Are they going to merge changes upstream?