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Re:HW accelerated Xwayland rendering for Nvidia merged by johnday on Friday April 09, 2021 @06:47PM (#26757158)
> It's true that Wayland is just a protocol but that protocol is also defined significantly by its implementations.

A protocol should never, never, ever be defined in any way by its implementations. The entire purpose of a protocol is to abstract away the common interface such that it is entirely implementation-agnostic.

Indeed, you might say that a protocol prescribes exactly the intersection of all implementations.

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Re:HW accelerated Xwayland rendering for Nvidia merged by taway098123 on Friday April 09, 2021 @06:55PM (#26757211)
>a protocol prescribes exactly the intersection of all implementations.

That's a better way to put it and that's more what I was getting at.

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