x11/GLX/GL on top of wayland

Sylvain BERTRAND sylware at legeek.net
Fri Jul 4 07:17:52 PDT 2014


On Fri, Jul 04, 2014 at 09:48:20AM -0400, Jasper St. Pierre wrote:
> Xwayland has DRI3/Present support, which means that any app that uses DRI3
> will work fine under it. Right now, this is the Intel driver, with support
> for the other FOSS drivers coming soon.
> 
> Otherwise, we fall back to non-hardware-accelerated codepaths. It won't
> break, but it will mean that you won't get hardware-accelerated rendering.

This is good news.

I need just a bit more of your lights on the matter: the wayland dri3 driver is
intel specific. You mean that it needs hw specific paths? The
mapping of xorg/glx/GL calls into wayland/egl/gl must inclue hw
specifities?

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Sylvain


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