network transparency ?

Posted Jul 26, 2025 20:16 UTC (Sat) by intelfx (subscriber, #130118)
In reply to: network transparency ? by jmalcolm
Parent article: Wayback 0.1 released

> I keep hearing about how adding "new hardware" will be a problem but even recent hardware, like Intel Arc for example, has not required any real changes to Xorg. The Xorg modesetting driver offloads to the kernel (KMS and DRM). Xorg uses libinput and udev (same as Wayland) and the rest is userland (Mesa) which is also common between Xorg and Wayland. As long as you are not looking for new functionality, new hardware that uses KMS and DRM will probably work just fine with Wayland. Xorg and Wayland essentially use the same drivers at this point.

The problem is not "new hardware" which is essentially a straightforward evolution of existing hardware. The problem is fundamentally new hardware[1], [2].

[1]: https://lobste.rs/c/sjm2l4
[2]: https://lobste.rs/c/jk95te