About 5 years ago I was at a big conference on the topic of what’s needed for upstream graphics. I spent a lot of time apologizing for and ranting about the various horror shows in the DRM graphics subsystems. And eventually some engineer from a hardware vendor asked:
“If this all such crap, why should we bother with upstream graphics?“
Now I can finally and honestly answer this, because upstream supports everything, has helpers for all possible and impossible display standards, is supported by ever Linux-based OS out there and every vendor has a driver. In this talk I will present about how we got there, and especially what’s been going on recently.
Daniel Vetter
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