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Auteur: Rainer Weikusat
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Aan: dng\@lists.dyne.org
Onderwerp: Re: [DNG] Linux 4.4 and KMS
Didier Kryn <kryn@???> writes:
>     Just received "Linux Update". One of the articles is about the
> release of kernel version 4.4.

>
>     Included in the new kernel is "A new kernel mode-setting (KMS)
> driver from Broadcom".

>
>     I gave a look at Wikipedia about Kernel-based mode-setting. The
> article in the French Wikipedia states that, amongst other advantages,
> KMS permits  to *run the X server without root priviledge*.


Kernel mode-setting has existed for a while and it's mainly supposed to
enable people to "do graphics" without having to resort to writing
another X driver, thereby making it yet more difficult to sell wayland.