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Lets make a SDK 0.4 Linux nagging thread!
Since there is no official response as to the status of Linux & OSX I am creating a thread. I think that cross platform developers shouldn't be treated as second-class citizen. Perhaps this is of n...
How is direct framebuffer access supposed to work in practice anyway?
Yeah there is Wayland but proprietary AMD drivers don't support it and it's not even on the roadmap. There are working FOSS drivers for Radeon cards but I tried them and they aren't even mature enough to run webgl shader demos properly. And their performance is so bad that you'd have low-end card performance with high end cards.
Nvidia promised eventual support, but that's not enough to base short term operation of the DK2 on it.
So how is the DK2 supposed to run in the mean time?
Yeah there is Wayland but proprietary AMD drivers don't support it and it's not even on the roadmap. There are working FOSS drivers for Radeon cards but I tried them and they aren't even mature enough to run webgl shader demos properly. And their performance is so bad that you'd have low-end card performance with high end cards.
Nvidia promised eventual support, but that's not enough to base short term operation of the DK2 on it.
So how is the DK2 supposed to run in the mean time?