Bug#825833: libkms
On Sat, Jul 16, 2016 at 10:20:12 +0200, Víctor M. Jáquez L. wrote:
> On 07/15/16 at 10:33pm, Julien Cristau wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 6, 2016 at 18:46:32 +0200, ydirson@free.fr wrote:
> >
> > > In fact, it looks like libkms was built in the past, but is explicitely
> > > disabled now. There is probably a reason for this, but there is no more
> > > information than that in the changelog, and no README.Debian.
> > >
> > > Could we please have more insight about why this decision was made ?
> > >
> > libkms wasn't used/useful then, I'd need some convincing to re-enable
> > it.
>
> Perhaps it won't be useful in desktop systems or servers, but, as far as I
> see, it is useful in embedded, if you want to draw without any display
> server.
>
> But I agree, I only have one modest example: kmssink, a simple GStreamer video
> sink, targeted precisely to embedded systems.
>
Where can I see that code? Why can't it use libdrm directly?
"embedded" is not an explanation.
Cheers,
Julien
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