Stone: A new era for Linux's low-level graphics - Part 1

Daniel Stone beginsa series on how the Linux graphic stack has improved in recent times."This has made mainline Linux much more attractive: the exact samegeneric codebases of GNOME and Weston that I'm using to write this blogpost on an Intel laptop run equally well on AMD workstations, low-power NXPboards destined for in-flight entertainment, and high-end Renesas SoCswhich might well be in your car. Now that the drivers are easy to write,and applications are portable, we've seen over ten new DRM drivers mergedto the upstream kernel since atomic modesetting was merged."