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hornetblack on Jan 15, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Debian 8.7 released

Mesa was the only for a while. (You need libgbm and a DRM+KMS driver to make a compositor and/or EGL_WL_bind_wayland_display for an embedded one). So that only worked with Intel and AMD GPUs. Nvidia now has EGLDevice and EGLStream for their drivers, and they provided patches for Weston and GNOME has added support as well.

pampa on Jan 15, 2017 [–]

does this mean that every compositor has to add gpu support on its own? a gpu that works in gnome would not neccesserily work in sway or orbment?

GrayShade on Jan 15, 2017 | [–]

In the case of NVIDIA, yes. Their GPUs need compositor support and the GNOME people ended up giving in and merging their patches.

digi_owl on Jan 16, 2017 | | [–]

facepalm...

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