Re:The death watch for the X Window System has probably started
by makomk on Sunday July 07, 2019 @04:22PM
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Most of the BSD variants have some (generally outdated) port of the Linux kernel graphics stack, sometimes even with a wrapper layer to try and make the BSD kernel internals look enough like Linux for it to run unmodified. So it's probably not completely hopeless, but that's mainly because the best shot at getting the graphics accceleration it needs is a straight port of the Linux kernel drivers. (At least for non-NVidia users.)
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Re:The death watch for the X Window System has probably started
by bojanz on Sunday July 07, 2019 @05:58PM
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Thankfully, getting less and less outdated (thanks to FreeBSD's wrapper layer, and OpenBSD Foundation sponsoring its own work).
FreeBSD 12.0 has Linux DRM 4.16 code (April 2018), while -current has Linux DRM 5.0 code (March 2019).
OpenBSD -current (next release) has Linux 4.19 DRM code (October 2018, LTS), with initial AMDGPU backports from 4.20 (AMD Picasso & Raven 2 support).