X/Wayland Is Coming Along Nicely, But Work Is Left

[dacresbu]

can phoronix talk about the positive effect wayland will have for gaming on linux

It will provide a more direct path to the rendering hardware instead of having to go through X. it just opens a display and puts up a GL context and pushes frames (i think)

[phoronix]

Phoronix: X/Wayland Is Coming Along Nicely, But Work Is Left

Keith Packard spoke on Wednesday of the 2012 Linux Foundation Collaboration concerning Wayland and its backwards compatibility support for X applications...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTA4MzA