Intel Developer Working On Adding HDR Display Support To Wayland / Weston

[boudewijnrempt]

YAY! We've been working on HDR support in Krita since mid 2018 -- and have it working on Windows, and on Windows only. It's really quite cool, and I would even say, spectacular. This might actually drive us to spend time with Wayland... Even though there's no support for drawing tablets in Qt on Wayland yet.

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Intel Developer Working On Adding HDR Display Support To Wayland / Weston

While the Linux desktop's display stack has largely reached parity with Windows and macOS in recent years (most recently, the DRM core properties hitting Linux 5.0 around Adaptive-Sync / VRR), but one of the areas that has remained elusive has been for full HDR display support. We've seen NVIDIA working on nursing the X.Org-based display stack for HDR while now Intel appears to be working on the necessary Wayland changes...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Wayland-Weston-Intel-HDR