[wayland-devel] RFC: Ideas to run weston on nvidia/ATI blob with hardware acceleration

[microcai]

Status updata:

weston now can create accelerated GL window using my GLX powerd EGL

but weston-desktop-shell segfautl, so currently bland screen.

:)

Will dig into it .


2012/7/20 Scott Moreau <oreaus at gmail.com>:
>>
>> Personally I feel this is necessary if wayland is going to succeed.
>
>
> Wayland is already successful in a large way. It is most certainly not
> contingent upon proprietary drivers supporting wayland.
>
>> Nvidia will likely fix their driver, but only *AFTER* wayland is being
>> used.
>
>
> It will likely be used by distros, perhaps without users even knowing it.
> Such is the case with canonicals plans to use a wayland system compositor as
> boot splash, desktop manager and underneath X, where there is driver
> support. We could see something like this as early as 12.10 since the code
> for it already works.
>
>>
>> Wayland will not be used by large segments of the Linux desktop-using
>> industry unless full NVIDIA acceleration works.
>
>
> This is a completely wrong assumption. After distros begin adopting wayland,
> it will likely be the default in many cases.
>
> I agree with Sebastian's statement "Let Nvidia adapt to Wayland/Weston and
> not the other way around.". It's all smoke-n-mirrors until there is some
> actual working implementation in the form of code. Even so, I think that
> those choosing to use a binary driver should use what that driver supports
> (X.org). When or if they choose to support wayland is their decision. I
> don't see any reason to perform extensive hacks to make wayland work where
> there is no actual upstream driver support. If someone hacks something
> somehow to say wayland works on a proprietary desktop driver, great, more
> power to you. However, I don't think it's going to happen.
>
>
> Scott