----- Mail original ----- > De: "Sven Joachim" <svenj...@gmx.de> > À: ydir...@free.fr > Cc: 825...@bugs.debian.org, 825833-submit...@bugs.debian.org > Envoyé: Mercredi 6 Juillet 2016 19:14:41 > Objet: Re: Bug#825833: libkms > > On 2016-07-06 18:46 +0200, ydir...@free.fr wrote: > > > In fact, it looks like libkms was built in the past, but is > > explicitely > > disabled now. There is probably a reason for this, but there is no > > more > > information than that in the changelog, and no README.Debian. > > > > Could we please have more insight about why this decision was made > > ? > > It seems libkms was considered deprecated in bug #684593[1], but at > least Fedora, Mageia and Archlinux continue to ship it.
Well, I'd think we could wait for upstream to disable it by default before stopping to ship it. >From my drm-beginner point of view at least, libkms seems a much more friendly option than ioctl'ing for buffer management :)
