Re:HW accelerated Xwayland rendering for Nvidia merged
by floatboth on Friday April 09, 2021 @09:20PM
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Well, then that company can expect to continue seeing middle fingers :)
Intel and AMD, the arch-rivals they are, coexist and collaborate on the kernel stack and Mesa. Even embedded companies join in (see Broadcom hiring Eric Anholt to make V3D a thing for the RPi4, even Qualcomm vaguely supporting Freedreno and Arm starting to show some kind of interest in Panfrost IIRC). Microsoft is in for virtualization and GL-on-D3D.
None of these vendors "owe anybody anything" yet they've joined the party. Turns out sharing is beneficial for everyone.
Re:HW accelerated Xwayland rendering for Nvidia merged
by kaba0 on Friday April 09, 2021 @10:21PM
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> Unfortunately due to the misdesign of Wayland
It has nothing to do with wayland, it is due to linux not wanting to provide a stable API for drivers, deterring binary blobs (successfully). As for whether this latter thing is good or bad is subjective.
Re:HW accelerated Xwayland rendering for Nvidia merged
by michaelmrose on Saturday April 10, 2021 @12:20AM
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A desktop environment under x doesn't concern itself with graphics drivers.
Unfortunately due to the misdesign of Wayland each graphical environment must write code to more directly interface with hardware instead of that being a layer above that. This means in current context it is vastly easier if NVIDIA bends on this issue however they also have the least incentive because most of their money isn't earned on the Linux Desktop.
People seem to suppose that somehow hardware vendors owe Linux users support and support in the fashion that would be desirable as if somehow not supporting the standards that others do is somehow wronging those developers and users but a private company in fact doesn't owe said developers or users ANY support of any kind.