Chia-I Wu, the open-source developer who previously worked
to bring Mesa to Android devices and worked on the
new EGL state tracker, is now working for
LunarG and has just published a patch-set that enables the Nouveau graphics driver to run the
Wayland Display Server.
This patch-set that was delivered today to the
Wayland mailing list fixes GLES and Cairo-GL along with an XCB-proto bug so that Wayland on X11 can be run with the Nouveau driver. Chia-I states that the support isn't perfected (i.e. no alpha support for pointer images), but some of the Wayland demo clients are now running.
In other news related to Wayland, earlier this week
Clutter gained Wayland support,
Wayland was demonstrated last month at
XDS Toulouse, and
GTK+ and
Qt continue to become more friendly towards this alternative display server that
may be deployed first by Intel's MeeGo Touch.