[OpenIndiana-discuss] gfxdrm/OpenGL error with latest update

[Till Wegmueller]

For what it's worth.

With the years this seems to have changed. DRM in linux has become more 
stable and has been adopted by FreeBSD, OpenBSD and NetBSD and others 
that have Desktop support. It turns out you can simply wrap the drivers 
in a decently small shim and be good to go. DRM is unfortunately not 
only required for wayland but also decent X.org speed for things like 
Firefox and most notably OpenGL which is an API that is much wanted by 
people. For OpenIndiana the Main goal is OpenGL/EGL support so we can 
keep having a Webbrowser that is not sluggish. But Wayland support is 
mostly just one other library and some compile settings in the desktop 
stack away. We have one volunteer from NetBSD that looks into driver 
porting and It's on my next project bucket list so we should see some 
decent stuff pop up soon. We now also have Xorg testing framework thanks 
to Metux so we can start getting upstream support for things.

-Till

On 02/08/2024 19.48, Tim Mooney via openindiana-discuss wrote:
> In regard to: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] gfxdrm/OpenGL error with latest...:
> 
>> Simple cost/benefit analysis - the cost of paying engineers to port the
>> whole framework from Linux and keeping up-to-date with a rapidly changing
>> upstream was determined to be more than the benefit to our customer base
>> of doing it.  I expect a similar analysis is why commercially backed,
>> server-oriented distros like SmartOS & OmniOS haven't ported them either.
> 
> Thanks for the info Alan!
> 
> "Not worth the time it takes to maintain" is exactly what I was expecting.
> 
> I also appreciate the insight into the change rate for the upstream
> project.
> 
> Tim