Vulkan Wayland Compositors Are Nearing Reality

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  • phoronix
    Administrator
    • Jan 2007
    • 67398

    Vulkan Wayland Compositors Are Nearing Reality

    Phoronix: Vulkan Wayland Compositors Are Nearing Reality

    One of the last pieces of the puzzle for supporting an entirely Vulkan-based Wayland compositor is coming together with a new extension that looks like it will be merged soon and there already being work pending against Sway/WLROOTS to make use of the Vulkan path...

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  • kvuj
    Phoronix Member
    • Jan 2021
    • 114

    #2
    That's so cool. I wonder if there could be a decent performance improvement. I'm not knowledgeable enough to know, but I have observed games perform much better with Vulkan.

    The mali GPU in my pinephone won't be able to use this, but my upcoming L5 might 🙏

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    • treba
      Senior Member
      • Sep 2012
      • 716

      #3
      Love to see how emersion seems to work on small issues like this all over the place. Thanks a lot to everyone involved

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      • sarmad
        Senior Member
        • Jul 2013
        • 1234

        #4
        "thus the Vulkan-powered Wayland compositors should ultimately work nice on NVIDIA hardware too"

        Does this mean they can simply do a Vulkan-powered Wayland compositor and avoid all the EGLStream vs. GBM debate altogether?

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        • royce
          Senior Member
          • Aug 2018
          • 660

          #5
          Some initial steps in wlroots too: https://github.com/swaywm/wlroots/pull/2648

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          • 2Eagle2
            Junior Member
            • Apr 2020
            • 4

            #6
            That sounds like it will finally allow easier Wayland addoption in linux desktop.
            Big thanks also for making this extension as part of Vulkan official extension - Good job

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            • rmfx
              Senior Member
              • Jan 2019
              • 765

              #7
              LoL Nvidia got the extension approval work done because it was gonna be a Mesa extension if not.
              Sounds like a parent way to get the kids to do their homework.

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              • shmerl
                Senior Member
                • Dec 2009
                • 3514

                #8
                So now they won't need GBM and EGLstreams anymore?

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                • NateHubbard
                  Senior Member
                  • Mar 2015
                  • 588

                  #9
                  I'd just like to congratulate Nvidia for their contribution.

                  Sounds weird saying that.

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                  • mppix
                    Senior Member
                    • Jan 2020
                    • 828

                    #10
                    o la la... maybe we'll get a unified Wayland desktop framework with Nvidia blessing after all.

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