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Re:How we wound up with Linux's kernel mode setting ('KMS') by phendrenad2 on Sunday June 19, 2022 @12:47PM (#31800988)
It's hilarious to me that "KMS" is almost exclusively used to mean "sending OpenGL data to the GPU" and very rarely if ever means "setting the resolution and frequency mode of a display". Maybe they should change the name to something more meaningful, like "Kernel-side GPU interface" (KSGI)?
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Re:How we wound up with Linux's kernel mode setting ('KMS') by seba_dos1 on Sunday June 19, 2022 @01:39PM (#31801519)
KMS isn't concerned with OpenGL at all, that's what Mesa (or other user-space driver) implements. KMS is needed to present on the screen. You may be confusing KMS with DRM, which KMS is just a small part of.
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Re:How we wound up with Linux's kernel mode setting ('KMS') by phendrenad2 on Sunday June 19, 2022 @06:00PM (#31803961)
Note that I said "is almost exclusively used to mean" and not "means". ;)
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