An important update here that you miss when only reading this introductory mail on LWN: https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dri-devel/2020-March/258939.htm

An important update here that you miss when only reading this introductory mail on LWN: https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dri-devel/2020-March/258939.html https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dri-devel/2020-March/... That said, having Wayland do atomic KMS with sync_files is just one tiny part, and this really needs to be plumbed all the way down to the application level. SurfaceFlinger is Android only and has been explicit sync from the beginning.