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> De: "Sven Joachim" <[email protected]>
> À: [email protected]
> Cc: [email protected], [email protected]
> Envoyé: Mercredi 6 Juillet 2016 19:14:41
> Objet: Re: Bug#825833: libkms
> 
> On 2016-07-06 18:46 +0200, [email protected] 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
> > ?
> 
> It seems libkms was considered deprecated in bug #684593[1], but at
> least Fedora, Mageia and Archlinux continue to ship it.

Well, I'd think we could wait for upstream to disable it by default
before stopping to ship it.

>From my drm-beginner point of view at least, libkms seems a much more friendly
option than ioctl'ing for buffer management :)

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