x11/GLX/GL on top of wayland

[Sylvain BERTRAND]

On Fri, Jul 04, 2014 at 10:31:53AM -0400, Jasper St. Pierre wrote:
> It's at a lower level than translating GLX to EGL. The client renders into
> specific card-buffers given its hardware-specific drivers inside mesa, and
> then passes a handle to those buffers to what it thinks is the X server
> using the DRI3 protocol. Xwayland can in turn pass those buffers to the
> real Wayland compositor using the secret wl_drm interface.
> 
> I'm told that the nouveau and radeon drivers now have support for DRI3 as
> of last week.

Ok then. I guess I'll dig in dri3/wayland support in mesa.

Good news to know that the migration path from x11/GLX/GL to
wayland/EGL/GL is nearly there!

best regards,

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Sylvain BERTRAND