NVIDIA Releases EGL-Wayland 1.1.17

[phoronix]

Phoronix: NVIDIA Releases EGL-Wayland 1.1.17

NVIDIA published EGL-Wayland 1.1.17 on Monday as the newest update to this Wayland EGL external platform library to provide client-side Wayland support to EGL atop the EGLDevice and EGLStream extensions...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-EGL-Wayland-1.1.17

[royce]

So many mixed signals.

[Espionage724]

I like the consistency on specifics:

• Respect damage rectangles provided by eglSwapBuffersWithDamage
• Return EGL_BAD_ALLOC when multiple EGLSurfaces are created from one wl_surface

Then:

• Fixed issue causing spurious crashes in KDE

Like, what was the issue?

[ahrs]

So many mixed signals.

The signal they're sending is:

Customers should use Gbm now but we recognise some of you are still on stale drivers from when we effed up badly. To that effect, here is a new version of egl-wayland that fixes some issues for the poor souls still on these ancient drivers that aren't using X11 for some weird reason

[MorrisS.]

I don't understand if Nvidia drivers run over GBM or EGL Stream or apply both them

[smitty3268]

I don't understand if Nvidia drivers run over GBM or EGL Stream or apply both them

They support both APIs, just like they support both OpenGL and Vulkan.

The one you are using depends on what api the software you are using was written to use.

[MrCooper]

Michael my understanding is that the nvidia driver requires the egl-wayland library for supporting the EGL Wayland platform (i.e. Wayland-native apps using GL) even with GBM, it's not EGLStream specific.

[Rovano]

Michael my understanding is that the nvidia driver requires the egl-wayland library for supporting the EGL Wayland platform (i.e. Wayland-native apps using GL) even with GBM, it's not EGLStream specific.

I read somewhere that the library should not be installed for newer drivers.
I am confused.

[MorrisS.]

They support both APIs, just like they support both OpenGL and Vulkan.

The one you are using depends on what api the software you are using was written to use.

So I've to assume that Firefox applies EGLStreams.

[MrCooper]

I read somewhere that the library should not be installed for newer drivers.

Probably because the driver ships its own build of it.

So I've to assume that Firefox applies EGLStreams.

GBM or EGLStream is a choice for Wayland compositors, not for apps, they just use the EGL Wayland platform.