A Great Present In The Linux 2.6.33 Kernel
David Airlie has just called upon Linus Torvalds to pull in the latest DRM patches for inclusion into the Linux 2.6.33 kernel. The Direct Rendering Manager improvements in this next kernel release will be particularly interesting and are perhaps as significant as earlier kernels that had introduced kernel mode-setting support for Intel and ATI/AMD hardware along with in-kernel memory management. The changes that the Linux 2.6.33 kernel will bring are aplenty and will impact almost all of those using an open-source graphics driver stack.
First off, the DRM in the Linux 2.6.33 kernel will finally deliver upon the KMS page-flipping ioctl. This Kristian Høgsberg innovation makes it possible for ATI and Intel hardware (along with NVIDIA hardware once Nouveau is merged) to have tear-free updating of the screen with low-latency page-flipping. This support will be worked into the X.Org Server, but it also happens to be one of the requirements for the Wayland Display Server.
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