Ranting on the X protocol

Posted Jun 5, 2010 18:25 UTC (Sat) by daniels (subscriber, #16193)
In reply to: Ranting on the X protocol by Cyberax
Parent article: Danjou: Thoughts and rambling on the X protocol

For example, it's not possible to have tiled frontbuffer - because all of the code in X.org has to be rewritten. And X.org is LARGE.

This will probably come as a huge surprise to the >95% of desktop X users (all Intel, most AMD, all NVIDIA beyond G80) who have a tiled frontbuffer.