Public bug reported: Make Wayland sessions work with fbdev. For when KMS/DRM support is missing in the kernel but the device still has legacy graphics.
Currently Xorg already does this with a custom driver that allows it to fall back to using fbdev. We could do the same with mutter but it's unlikely to be accepted by upstream since Fedora opted to solve it by just enabling SimpleDRM in the kernel: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/ReplaceFbdevDrivers This started out being a personal goal for me but will also be a business requirement in future as Ubuntu Core Desktop does not ship Xorg (but does ship Xwayland). So we need to give mutter some way of using fbdev graphics. ** Affects: linux (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: Incomplete ** Affects: mutter (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Also affects: linux (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2008977 Title: Make Wayland sessions work with fbdev Status in linux package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Status in mutter package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: Make Wayland sessions work with fbdev. For when KMS/DRM support is missing in the kernel but the device still has legacy graphics. Currently Xorg already does this with a custom driver that allows it to fall back to using fbdev. We could do the same with mutter but it's unlikely to be accepted by upstream since Fedora opted to solve it by just enabling SimpleDRM in the kernel: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/ReplaceFbdevDrivers This started out being a personal goal for me but will also be a business requirement in future as Ubuntu Core Desktop does not ship Xorg (but does ship Xwayland). So we need to give mutter some way of using fbdev graphics. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/2008977/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : kernel-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
