Re: X.org fork, XLibre

Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

On 8 Jun 2025 17:21:00 +1000, Computer Nerd Kev wrote:

I read that as: the code for the drivers doesn't usually need to be
changed, but they need to be recompiled, so existing X.Org driver
packages won't work. Same as with Linux kernel drivers.

 
It is not the kernel that calls into the X server, it is the X server that
calls into the kernel. So I wouldn't expect any kernel changes to be
necessary.

I mean the situation is the same as with Linux kernel drivers, not
that Linux kernel drivers also need to be changed. The X server is
modular like the kernel, so like a new kernel needs new module
builds to be sure of avoiding errors, so apparantly does this X
server. But I just mentioned kernel drivers as an example.

I suspect distro package maintainers won't consider it worth that
much effort given how many separate X packages they usually have.

 
There aren't that many different driver add-on packages, are there?

On Devuan:
$ aptitude search xserver-xorg-input xserver-xorg-video | wc -l
42

But other distros might have fewer.

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