LFCS 2012: X and Wayland [LWN.net]

LFCS 2012: X and Wayland

Posted Apr 12, 2012 17:08 UTC (Thu) by drag (subscriber, #31333)
In reply to: LFCS 2012: X and Wayland by slashdot
Parent article: LFCS 2012: X and Wayland

> AFAIK right now Wayland requires EGL/Gallium/DRM drivers,

It requires OpenGLES2 and EGL + a couple of EGL extensions.

> which generally suck (or don't work at all) compared to the proprietary drivers for the latest hardware.

Combining overly broad assumptions with incorrect statements amounts to borderline trolling. The only proprietary driver worth a damn is Nvidia and it supports the necessary APIs.

It would require minimal effort on Nvidia's part to support Wayland correctly. Probably much easier then trying to support differences in Linux and Xorg revisions.

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LFCS 2012: X and Wayland

Posted Apr 20, 2012 10:32 UTC (Fri) by wookey (subscriber, #5501) [Link]

I think you might be ignoring Arm world, where all the GPU drivers are currently proprietary (shocking state of affairs, hopefully finally starting to imporve). They do all seem to use openglES and EGL though, so I guess that means 'this stuff will work'?