News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on HW accelerated Xwayland rendering for Nvidia merged. Parent comment

Re:HW accelerated Xwayland rendering for Nvidia merged by kaba0 on Friday April 09, 2021 @10:21PM (#26758399)
> 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.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:HW accelerated Xwayland rendering for Nvidia merged by michaelmrose on Saturday April 10, 2021 @12:20AM (#26758899)
A desktop environment under x doesn't concern itself with graphics drivers.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:HW accelerated Xwayland rendering for Nvidia merged by kaba0 on Saturday April 10, 2021 @03:04AM (#26759561)
You can use wlroots to have a similarly abstract view of the underlying.

Nonetheless, X itself is broken, it could not have been done otherwise.

[ Parent | on HN ]