Reply With Quote"Wayland doesn't need KMS"Originally Posted by Vim_User
can you post the source to that
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AFAIK, it is Weston that needs KMS, not Wayland.
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"Wayland doesn't need KMS"
can you post the source to that
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pag...item&px=ODgxMg
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Right. Wayland is basically just a buffer-swapping and event-handling API.
What it does, though is offload a bunch of the stuff that X used to do into the compositor. So Weston (and Kwin/etc.) have to do things like handling the mode setting.
Weston does that by using KMS, though the proprietary drivers are free to modify the code as necessary to work with their drivers.
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