Plumbing explicit synchronization through the Linux ecosystem

[Simon Ser]

On Monday, March 16, 2020 5:04 PM, Jason Ekstrand <jason at jlekstrand.net> wrote:

> Hopefully, that will provide some motivation for other compositors
> (kwin, gnome-shell, etc.) because they now have a real user of it in
> an upstream driver for a major desktop platform and not just a few
> weston examples. However, someone is going to have to drive the
> actual development in those compositors. I'd be very happy if more
> people got involved, :-)

FWIW, a wlroots pull request is in progress [0]. The plan is first to
accept fence FDs from clients, then send them our fences as a second
step.

[0]: https://github.com/swaywm/wlroots/pull/2070