Comment 16 for bug 1118903

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Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) wrote : Re: Mir lacks a software rendering backend

It seems KMS support for VBE is effectively non-existent (never landed and was never finished anyway). Red Hat too, are planning for vesa/fbdev being their fallback:

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2013-August/188429.html

No one wants to use fbdev, but it is apparently still the only software rendering interface to that works /everywhere/. I hope to be proven wrong :(