The biggest challenge to X11 will be expanding to new GPU vendors

[ionutcatana]

Aside from the big 3 GPU manufacturers, and a few other legacy drivers (radeon, voodoo, etc.), X11 has close to 0 support.

The effort to get GNU/Linux working on Apple arm64 hardware is Wayland-only. Qualcomm's Adreno GPUs likely won't support X11. I own a RISC-V development board with an Imagination PowerVR GPU, the SoC's (Spacemit K1) vendor confirmed X11 is not supported (outside software rendering of course).

In a future where we may be running Arm or RISC-V desktops, will we be forced to fall back on old dedicated GPUs?

[cepelinas9000]

In a future where we may be running Arm or RISC-V desktops, will we be forced to fall back on old dedicated GPUs?

It is not problem, as modesetting driver uses same interfaces as Wayland (it means if it can run Wayland - it will run Xlibre).

p.s. it was told exactly same for orange pi 5 (rk3588): https://github.com/orgs/X11Libre/discussions/211#discussioncomment-13768576

[ionutcatana]

That's awesome, I will try to mess with modesetting next weekend. On RISC-V it's pretty difficult to boot with new kernel parameters. they're baked into a binary partition that's not easy at all to modify...