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FWIU, drivers don't have to specifically support Wayland. As long as they support Khronos's EGL spec, wayland will run on those drivers. EGL is sort of a cross
by pritambaral 10y ago
FWIU, drivers don't have to specifically support Wayland. As long as they support Khronos's EGL spec, wayland will run on those drivers.
EGL is sort of a cross-platform spec for window managers to work with graphics cards.
- cm3 10y agoSo is it just that the APIs are not there yet which motivated wld to talk directly to Intel's DRM?
- pritambaral 10y agoI doubt that. libdrm should have been enough, but this was about two years ago, when Wayland wasn't ready. I don't know much about how wld is using libdrm_intel, and I don't think I'll be much the wiser even if I read the code. Maybe ask the author.