DRI3 v1.2 Lands In X.Org Server 1.20

[pal666]

I still say the Linux ecosystem would have been better off if all of Poettering's resources had been spent on improving ALSA and OpenRC instead

improved alsa is not a replacement for alsa users (pa is alsa user). improved openrc would turn systemd.

[haagch]

There's a patch for the amdgpu issue. Other than that, I have no issues with RC1.

This? https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xs...9a4de6980b654f

[torsionbar28]

RC1 is just an promise how ABI won't be broken anymore... on RC1 announce these features were mention that it will added, so everything goes as expected.

But let say it like this:

RC1 - on this point we won't break ABI anymore, slight breakages allowed
RC2 - slighter breakages allowed
if RC3 - slightest breakages still allowed
release & plus - only bugfixes, security and non-intrusive backports allowed, and slightestest breakages.

Fixed.

[Sloth]

There's a patch for the amdgpu issue. Other than that, I have no issues with RC1.

[aufkrawall]

Is the RC1 an unstable mess, or why?

[RealNC]

Prime example of project management failure.

X.Org has huge management issues.

[Sloth]

Apparently "slight breakages" included the amdgpu driver. At least modesetting still works.

[dungeon]

I really don't get xorg-server development. It seems not work goes on for ages, the a load of stuff lands an rc1 is made then they add even more stuff like this, what was the point in rc1?

RC1 is just an promise how ABI won't be broken anymore... on RC1 announce these features were mention that it will added, so everything goes as expected.

But let say it like this:

RC1 - on this point we won't break ABI anymore, slight breakages allowed
RC2 - slighter breakages allowed
if RC3 - slightest breakages still allowed
release & plus - only bugfixes, security and non-intrusive backports allowed

[uid313]

GNOME and KDE uses Wayland.

Electron 2.0.0-beta2 was released yesterday, so I guess soon the final 2.0 release will be done, which now use GTK3.
Then we wait for Atom, Spotify, Skype and VS Code to be rebuilt using Electron 2.0.

It looks like Firefox 59 will have preliminary Wayland support.
VLC 3.0 was recently released with initial Wayland support. So the only thing missing is GIMP.

So soon I can uninstall X.Org Server and run Wayland exclusively.

[MastaG]

Now lets hope EGLStreams for XWayland will land in time as well.
Then all features are merged and nvidia binary blob users can also enjoy X11 apps on Wayland with EGLStreams patched compositor (such as mutter ).