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gzreadyesterday at 6:02 PM2 repliesview on HN

The Xorg codebase still includes some of those old drivers and is structured to allow them to exist.


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pmarinyesterday at 6:40 PM

Just to be clear the hardware abstraction layer used by wayland and any current Xserver is exactly the same.

jauntywundrkindyesterday at 6:29 PM

Yes exactly. DRM exists, but there's still what I called the X "kernel", all of it's heavyweight abstractions.

To the previous a-hole, frak you: not an AI. That's rude as frak. Also, you manage to be incredibly wrong. Even an AI wouldn't overlook such an obvious error; maybe it'd be better to have it replace you. So rude dude! Behave!

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