drm-i915kms + x11-intel eats out all of the ram and swap but not with x11-scfb

[Pete Wright]

On 4/17/20 11:57 PM, Niclas Zeising wrote:
> On 2020-04-18 05:58, Pete Wright wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 4/17/20 7:49 PM, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
>>> On Fri, Apr 17, 2020 at 07:01:49PM +0200, Jan Beich wrote:
>>>> ...
>>>> Unlikely. modesetting reached "good enough" level while X11 is
>>>> deprecated in favor of Wayland.
>>> X11 is certainly not going anywhere as it mostly works just fine and no
>>> replacement is needed.  You guys can play with Wayland or whatever the
>>> next cool kid on the block is called as long as you wish but please let
>>> it be your pain, not ours.
>>>
>>> Deprecating X11, huh.  That's preposterous!
>> You should let the Xorg development team know your opinions on this 
>> topic.  the freebsd graphics team is trying to make sure that when 
>> upstream does make the cut over to wayland we are not left totally out.
>>
>> i would also say that *now* (well probably several years ago) is the 
>> time for us as a community to get engaged with wayland development. 
>> there are already lots of linux and systemd assumptions being made by 
>> their development efforts, so this is our opportunity to make sure 
>> our voices are heard before it's too late.
>
> The Freedesktop.org upstream (the ones responsible for xorg and 
> wayland) are aware of us, and quite helpful in getting FreeBSD 
> specific code in, so I'm not too worried there (as long as we bring 
> the code, at least). I'm more worried about the people making various 
> wayland compositors and wayland desktop environments though.

thanks for the clarification here - that is def an important distinction 
i did not make.

-pete

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