Stone: A new era for Linux's low-level graphics

Daniel Stone begins a series on how the Linux graphic stack has improved in recent times. "This has made mainline Linux much more attractive: the exact same generic codebases of GNOME and Weston that I'm using to write this blog post on an Intel laptop run equally well on AMD workstations, low-power NXP boards destined for in-flight entertainment, and high-end Renesas SoCs which might well be in your car. Now that the drivers are easy to write, and applications are portable, we've seen over ten new DRM drivers merged to the upstream kernel since atomic modesetting was merged."

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Stone: A new era for Linux's low-level graphics - Part 1

Posted Mar 21, 2018 19:07 UTC (Wed) by NHO (subscriber, #104320) [Link] (1 responses)

>[T]he exact same generic codebases of GNOME and Weston that I'm using to write this blog post on an Intel laptop run equally well on AMD workstations, low-power NXP boards destined for in-flight entertainment, and high-end Renesas SoCs which might well be in your car

But what about Plasma or XFCE or LXQt? Whole article sounds less like "revolution in Linux graphics" and more like "revolution in Gnome graphics"

Stone: A new era for Linux's low-level graphics - Part 1

Posted Mar 21, 2018 19:37 UTC (Wed) by zdzichu (subscriber, #17118) [Link]

Article is about LOW-LEVEL infrastructure, shared by all desktop environments. Weston and GNOME happen to be two Wayland compositor used by author.

Stone: A new era for Linux's low-level graphics - Part 1

Posted Mar 21, 2018 22:38 UTC (Wed) by mgb (guest, #3226) [Link] (4 responses)

Am I the only person who had to start over reading this article after realizing that DRM here apparently refers to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_Rendering_Manager rather than https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_rights_management ?

Stone: A new era for Linux's low-level graphics - Part 1

Posted Mar 21, 2018 23:52 UTC (Wed) by roc (subscriber, #30627) [Link] (3 responses)

It will be extra confusing when people implement DRM in the DRM.

Stone: A new era for Linux's low-level graphics - Part 1

Posted Mar 22, 2018 6:46 UTC (Thu) by blackwood (guest, #44174) [Link] (2 responses)

We do implement DRM in DRM, there was a nice little panic about that:

https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/blog/2017/12/11/w...

And yes DRM-not-being-DRM is endless amounts of fun, especially since it's the GPU subsystem, so not unreasonable to assume.

Stone: A new era for Linux's low-level graphics - Part 1

Posted Mar 22, 2018 10:47 UTC (Thu) by geert (subscriber, #98403) [Link] (1 responses)

Endless amounts of fun, as I saw the first DRM (rendering) demo in 1999, before the other DRM (rights) term became common.

Stone: A new era for Linux's low-level graphics - Part 1

Posted Mar 22, 2018 17:27 UTC (Thu) by ssl (guest, #98177) [Link]

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