Red Hat Expecting X.org to “Go into Hard Maintenance Mode Fairly Quickly”

Re:Red Hat Expecting X.org to “Go into Hard Maintenance Mode... by ryacko on Friday June 28, 2019 @12:33PM (#20306092)

Only reason why hybrid kernels and Linux is popular is the stable driver API, otherwise recompilation is necessary (which was new to me when I discovered it).

OpenBSD is suited for simple workstations or as a tablet substitute, but I don't think the OpenBSD desktop will quite take off, unless driver developers will return to releasing obfuscated code.

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Re:Red Hat Expecting X.org to “Go into Hard Maintenance Mode... by muricula on Friday June 28, 2019 @02:30PM (#20307417)

Linux doesn't have a stable driver ABI: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/Documentation/...

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Re:Red Hat Expecting X.org to “Go into Hard Maintenance Mode... by ryacko on Friday June 28, 2019 @04:22PM (#20308475)

I said API: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_kernel#/media/File:Linux...

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Re:Red Hat Expecting X.org to “Go into Hard Maintenance Mode... by CraftThatBlock on Friday June 28, 2019 @03:14PM (#20307879)

That is for in kernel drivers, as stated. It something breaks in kernel, it just won't compile with the kernel, but user space drivers have great ABI compatibility as stated in the link you provided.

Not an expert though, might be wrong but the text makes it pretty clear

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