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Re:Wayland on OpenBSD by csande17 on Sunday July 09, 2023 @10:11PM (#36661220)
> unless said new hardware is only exposed via a new kernel API and nobody bothers to update the modesetting driver for it

And this is actually really unlikely for Wayland, isn't it? The whole idea is that each desktop environment implements its display server using the modesetting API. That's why there's all kinds of drama about Nvidia "not supporting Wayland"; their kernel driver exposes some nonstandard APIs, and they can patch Xorg to support those APIs, but they can't patch every Wayland compositor in the world.

I guess Xorg could hit bugs in the modesetting driver that the most popular Wayland compositors don't hit. IIRC that was an issue for Asahi Linux's Apple M1 video driver.

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Re:Wayland on OpenBSD by badsectoracula on Monday July 10, 2023 @06:59AM (#36664596)
Might be unlikely but not impossible - after all if people cared about not breaking existing software Wayland itself wouldn't exist in the first place :-P

Xorg is open source and drivers can be fixed as long as there are enough people to notice and care. Worst case you can run an X root window on top of Wayland compositor and pretend the latter is just a graphics driver :-P.

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