Wayland on X - KMS/DRM/GEM required?

[Kristian Høgsberg]

On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 10:52 AM, Malte Eggers <maltee at lavabit.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm sorry to ask something, that could actually easily be tested, but I don't
> have the possibility right now. Does wayland running on X depend on KMS, DRM
> and GEM? Could wayland run, for example, fullscreen on an X server running
> with the nvidia blob?

Yup, that's possible.  One way is to use something like
http://meego.gitorious.org/qemu-maemo/gles-libs to wrap an existing
GLX/GL combo in EGL/GLES2 and then add the Wayland extensions for
buffer sharing.

Kristian