The Latest NVIDIA EGLStreams Wayland Backend Code Under Review For KDE/KWin

[phoronix]

Phoronix: The Latest NVIDIA EGLStreams Wayland Backend Code Under Review For KDE/KWin

Back in November is when NVIDIA announced they were developing an EGLStreams-based back-end for KDE's KWin so the KDE Wayland session could run with their proprietary graphics driver similar to GNOME's EGLStreams support. That latest code is now under review...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NVIDIA-January-EGLStreams-KWin

[cl333r]

Hopefully this year I'll be able to switch to wayland!!

[You-]

I hope the code is better than the code submitted to gnome - I have read complaints about it not being very stable.

[ngraham]

Please note that the link in the article goes straight to the in-progress review. Please avoid commenting there unless you're a KWin expert and it's pertinent to the code under review.

[shmerl]

Interesting, but I wish there would be more effort to enable Wayland compositors using common Vulkan paths. Looks like there is still work needed to get there.

[R41N3R]

Didn't expect that this would be available that fast. I think this will help Wayland adoption on Kwin!

[sarmad]

How is the EGLStream support in Gnome anyway? Does it actually work or you still have no hardware acceleration for XWayland?

[Danny3]

I must say that I'm happy that the KDE developers stood their ground and didn't move a finger for the worst company ever.
Other than that, I really don't care if KDE has better support for Nvidia since none of my computers have a Nvidia GPU anymore.

[miabrahams]

Nvidia, your whole approach to Linux drivers is appalling, but thank you for at least having at least the decency to contribute this.

[Xaero_Vincent]

If it's still no accelerated XWayland support then Nvidia GNOME and KDE on Wayland is a no go. Accelerated XWayland is a must because of Steam.