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+[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]]
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+[[!tag open_issue_porting]]
+
+IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2012-03-18:
+
+    <antrik> Wayland should be very portable. all the system dependencies are
+      in the infrastructure, such as DRI
+    <antrik> we have had a DRI task (for X.Org) for years
+    <antrik> (in fact I would be the right person to implement this,
+      considering my background -- by quite frankly, I doubt I'll ever do it)
+    <tschwinge> http://xorg.freedesktop.org/wiki/Hurd_Porting
+
+IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2012-03-20:
+
+    <youlysses> Is wayland something that will be semi-easy to port to the
+      hurd? I saw GNOME is heading in this direction.
+    <pinotree> wayland at the moment is linux only
+    <tschwinge> youlysses: A DRI implementation will be needed.
+    <pinotree> that, and libdrm compiling
+    <youlysses> So it will take some work ... but theres no *HUGE* design
+      decison that would inhibit it?
+    <pinotree> i know it uses epoll, for instance
+    <tschwinge> youlysses: I cannot judge how complex a DRI system is, and how
+      much needs to be designed vs. implemented.