Another New KMS Graphics Driver Tips Up

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Another New KMS Graphics Driver Tips Up

Another new open-source KMS (kernel mode-setting) kernel graphics driver has tipped-up. This time it's for.....

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTA5Mjk

[asdx]

Great, KMS rocks. Can't wait for Wayland and KDE to work on Wayland now.

[cl333r]

Great, KMS rocks. Can't wait for Wayland and KDE to work on Wayland now.

I think you mean Gnome & KDE on Wayland.

[asdx]

I think you mean Gnome & KDE on Wayland.

Yes, sorry.

[FourDMusic]

Does David ever sleep? You're absolutely amazing! Go team!

[mattst88]

Poor journalism.

The open-source driver itself is based upon the design of the AST driver along with earlier work done by Matthew Garrett.

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Dave wrote the AST driver as well. The G200 driver is based on the Matthew Garret's Cirrus KMS driver for QEMU. The Cirrus driver is based on my GLINT KMS driver, so the G200 driver is as well.

[uid313]

Wow, the G200 is a 14-year-old graphics card and its seeing new device driver development work in the open source community.

[mattst88]

Wow, the G200 is a 14-year-old graphics card and its seeing new device driver development work in the open source community.

Yes, because it's embedded in recent servers (for some reason).

[curaga]

So things go from accelerated UMS to cpu-only KMS? How is that an improvement?

[mattst88]

So things go from accelerated UMS to cpu-only KMS? How is that an improvement?

Because you don't care about accelerating an old chip embedded in a server, while you get the benefits of KMS.