KMS Page-Flipping Ioctl Ready For Linux 2.6.32

[phoronix]

Phoronix: KMS Page-Flipping Ioctl Ready For Linux 2.6.32

Kristian Høgsberg has announced that the work he and Jesse Barnes, Jakob Bornecrantz, and Chris Wilson have been working on for the past few months is now ready for prime-time action. This work is the mode-setting page-flip ioctl for the kernel DRM...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=NzQ2MQ

[eugene2k]

Now that this work is out of the way, Kristian Eagle+KMS back-end for Clutter

Who's Kristian Eagle?

[89c51]

Kristian had also promised a backend for GTK but that doesnt seem to be a priority

[eugene2k]

It's open source. If you want something - help people out

P.S. I would expect people to start working on the GTK+ backend as soon as wayland and eagle get in sync with each other. And that is not possible without the page-flipping ioctl. So it's probably going to be after kernel 2.32 is out.

[89c51]

It's open source. If you want something - help people out

some things are not as simple as "hello world"

and require immense knowledge in order to be implemented

this is something i (and million other OS users) can not do sadly

[7oby]

Kristian had also promised a backend for GTK

Is it an backend which makes more use of XRender such as QT4?