Running X11 On 64-bit ARM Hardware Is Sort Of Working

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Running X11 On 64-bit ARM Hardware Is Sort Of Working

Marcin Juszkiewicz, the ARM developer at Red Hat responsible for a lot of RHEL/Fedora ARM work, has finally managed to get an X11 Server running on real AArch64 hardware...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=X11-ARM-AArch64-Startup

[oleid]

Again this Red Hat guys forcing people to run their software on new architectures!!!11.... Oh wait!

[wizard69]

Nice!

Now all we need is some benchmarking!

[dungeon]

Now all we need is some benchmarking!

For what? He runs prehistoric 32MB SDRAM Matrox PCI card with 16MB VRAM visible

[droidhacker]

I really think that this article should be rewritten. There is nothing special about getting xorg "running on arm64". This is only about uncovering a problem with respect to pci on arm64.

Simply put, some children at xda-developers.com got xorg running on arm64 almost a MONTH ago;

http://forum.xda-developers.com/nexus-9/general/guide-linux-nexus-9-t2985958