summary of his LPC talk on kernel graphics drivers.
"Unfortunately the business case for 'upstream first' on the kernel
side is completely broken. Not for open source, and not for any fundamental
reasons, but simply because the kernel moves too slowly, is too big,
drivers aren’t well contained enough and therefore customer will not or
even can not upgrade. For some hardware upstreaming early enough is
possible, but graphics simply moves too fast: By the time the upstreamed
driver is actually in shipping distros, it’s already one hardware
generation behind. And missing almost a year of tuning and performance
improvements. Worse it’s not just new hardware, but also GL and Vulkan
versions that won’t work on older kernels due to missing features,
fragmenting the ecosystem further."
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