Virtual Newsletter about Software Freedom

April 26, 2026

The confusing system of porting libdrm to Hurd
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Mesa Hurd support has been pushed!
But, another thing needs to be ported.
Libdrm.
Well, the pull request is in[1] but there's one big issue.

The file `include/drm/drm.h` is from the Linux kernel.
This means that the Hurd developers have to "send a patch to the GNU/Linux kernel to dri-devel@ ML, then, once accepted, you can sync the header here".

Annoying.

Well, once that would be fixed, we would have full OpenGL running on GNU/Hurd.
If only there was a custom OpenGL implementation that used software rendering and worked on all Unix systems running X11.
But there isn't.

- NexusSfan

[1] https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/libdrm/-/merge_requests/443

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