Shuttleworth: Unity on Wayland

Posted Nov 5, 2010 9:10 UTC (Fri) by mjthayer (guest, #39183)
In reply to: Shuttleworth: Unity on Wayland by marineam
Parent article: Shuttleworth: Unity on Wayland

> On the flip side though, none of this applies to things still using the traditional driver-in-X model such as proprietary drivers and all the odds and ends that aren't Intel, nVidia, and ATI.

I can't say for sure, but I suspect that getting basic (that is, unaccelerated) KMS drivers working for the "odds and ends" would be feasible if someone finds the hardware to test. With the big caveat that that needs people to understand KMS. But if someone were to produce a nice KMS driver stub, which more or less worked except for a few empty functions with big "fill in XXX here" stickers there would be people able to fill in the gaps and lift things like the actual initialisation and register poking from the DDX drivers. I fear that I may have to port a DDX to KMS myself in the not too distant future, so perhaps I should give that a try.