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I was expecting something closer to direct framebuffer writes, as is often done in the various write-an-OS articles that get posted here semi-regularly.


KMSDRM is soooo much more fun than X. Truly the way programs were meant to be.


and then once it works u can slap it to ur own OS and avoid the rest of linux too! yay! :')


that is correct, id rather attempt to understand the hdmi protocol before i understand 50 million lines of linux ^.^


i on the other hand, just loved the article.

was a bit confused about the segfault stuff mentioned towards the beginning of the article. but got quite quickly disabused of that notion with gdb etc.




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