Hi, "Alan Coopersmith" <[email protected]> írta 2020-02-05 09:11-kor: > Right - applications expecting DRI/KMS interfaces are going to be sorely > disappointed, and limited to what the underlying illumos kernel provides.
Are you 100% sure about this? If apps would have direct access to those devices at the same time X11server does, that could lead to serious deadlock issues, or one writes over parts in the graphic card's memory what is under the control of the other one. If you would say, that the Xserver mmap-s or does some other magic to access the card's memory, than shares the memory area using some X11 extenson and the client (wm/de) could access that like some sysv ipc-way (eg. shmem), I could understand if that would not work. Or like fdpassing. Btw.: In X11 the partys can negotiate who supports which feature. I would think if the Xserver doesn't support some linux-specific drm/kms interface (which can be easily the point here) than it would just fallback to some legacy solution. But if wm's and de's work this way, that sounds like a serious design issue to me. Btw.: What is the situation with joyent's pkgsrc repo? I never checked but If memory serves well I read about that on this list, that one used pkgsrc repo + omnios to have some decent-recent gui. Maybe not kde, which needed linux-specific drm/kms interface. Some first hands experience: To cut my action camera's recordings I usually copy my files to my nas (omnios). I have a 16.04 ubuntu lx zone there + the extra repo for the avidemux, and ssh -Y there from my arch desktop to run the avidemux. That way files should be copied to the nas once. Than only the editors gui should be transferred to my desktop, but the actual data-process stays inbox. Regards, Gyu _______________________________________________ openindiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
