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Either the technical or the political appeal is enough to reject the EGLStreams series. There are APIs that offer the same features and are used by every other
by robert_foss 8y ago
Either the technical or the political appeal is enough to reject the EGLStreams series.
There are APIs that offer the same features and are used by every other Open Source driver. Just implement those.
Nvidia truly is the last vendor in the GPU space that is actively hostile to Open Source.
Don't get me wrong, the developers at NVidia that are out there contributing to projects are nice&intelligent people with the best intentions. But their corporate parent is actively hostile.
- PlutoIsAPlanet 8y agoThere are actually technical reasons GBM can't be used by nVidia. first is that it's tied to Mesa and secondly it has performance issues with non-display outputs (e.g. VR).
- robert_foss 8y agoGBM doesn't necessarily have to be the answer here. Just providing an implementation of EGLStreams support for mesa could be another.
- vetinari 8y agoOr the allocator library, they were talking about and didn't get anywhere.