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authorSamuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>2023-01-04 09:25:23 +0100
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faq: Add note about Xorg support
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@@ -16,7 +16,9 @@ License|/fdl]]."]]"""]]
Currently, for disks Mach integrates old drivers from Linux through some
[[community/gsoc/project_ideas/driver_glue_code]], which provide
IDE disk support, and we have an AHCI driver which provides [[SATA
-support|faq/sata_disk_drives]]. For network boards, we use the [[DDE]] toolkit
+support|faq/sata_disk_drives]].
+
+For network boards, we use the [[DDE]] toolkit
to run linux 2.6.32 drivers in userland processes, which provides both long-term
support for new hardware and safety against driver bugs. Note however that we
have of course not tested all drivers, we obviously don't even have all kinds of
@@ -24,5 +26,8 @@ hardware. So we can not promise that they will all work. What probably
works for sure is what we usually use: the rtl8139 and e1000 drivers for
instance. Firmware loading is not implemented yet.
+For graphical mode, Xorg is supported, e.g. with the vesa driver. DRM is not
+supported yet.
+
[[microkernel/mach/gnumach/ports/Xen]] is also supported, both blkfront and
netfront.