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Re:Are We Wayland Yet? by imtringued on Monday November 25, 2019 @06:21AM (#21627109)
>Ideally, the compositor shouldn't have to care very much about which drivers the user is using for their graphics card.

That would require a single standard for communication with GPUs and the problem is that Nvidia is refusing to implement that standard.

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Re:Are We Wayland Yet? by arghwhat on Monday November 25, 2019 @10:08AM (#21628718)
All it requires is a single standard interface for managing buffers, which exists and is named GBM.

Wayland doesn't care how you draw your buffers, and a custom EGL library as they already do, while gross as hell, is not at all a compatibility problem.

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Re:Are We Wayland Yet? by traverseda on Monday November 25, 2019 @07:57AM (#21627706)
Or some kind of abstraction layer.
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