SWVKC Is A Vulkan-Powered Wayland Compositor Focused On Performance + Correctness

[phoronix]

Phoronix: SWVKC Is A Vulkan-Powered Wayland Compositor Focused On Performance + Correctness

While the current Vulkan API is exhaustive enough to implement full-featured Wayland compositors and X11 window managers, to date there hasn't been too much adoption considering OpenGL is still more pervasive among hardware/drivers and it's obviously a significant effort writing a new compositor from scratch. One of the leading (among few) examples of a Vulkan-powered window manager / compositor is ChamferWM, which does continue to be developed. SWVKC meanwhile is one that has been seeing development this year as an alpha-stage Wayland Vulkan compositor...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=SWVKC-Wayland-Vulkan-Comp

[shmerl]

I'm looking forward to KWinFT to implement Vulkan based compositing.

[kbios]

Cool, a vulkan compositor solves the GBM vs EGLstreams problem

[Britoid]

Cool, a vulkan compositor solves the GBM vs EGLstreams problem

It still uses GBM..

[shmerl]

It still uses GBM..

Is it because Vulkan alone doesn't provide anything alternative? There should be something targeted for WSI for such use case.

[wizard69]

Interesting but I'm not too certain that this is under development as the last serious commit was some time ago.

[schmidtbag]

Is there some demo distro for this like Rebecca Black OS was for weston? Perhaps some other stupid name like Jonas Bros OS or K-Pop!_OS?

[skeevy420]

I'm looking forward to KWinFT to implement Vulkan based compositing.

I bet they're not

Just imagine all the fun they'll have when we're submitting KWin bugs with a fustercluck of RADV, AMDVLK, and Pro with AMDGPUs

[skeevy420]

Interesting but I'm not too certain that this is under development as the last serious commit was some time ago.

There's a clipboard branch where the last commit was 19 days ago.

[bug77]

focused on performance and correctness over features

What does that even mean? Performance is usually at odds with correctness and features is what most people agree Wayland is still lacking.