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[shmerl]

Nice to see Debian experimental getting it so quickly. It allows updating Mesa even during the freeze.

[shmerl]

I think they mentioned it's one of the TODOs. I.e. eventually they'll use server side decorations when available (KDE) and libdrecor otherwise which will...

[shmerl]

I'd say anything that can't run Vulkan today is old enough not to make it hold back the general progress, but rather threat them as legacy case. And as...

[shmerl]

What about whole explicit synchronization approach that compositors need to switch to with Vulkan? Will KWin tackle that? Classic Wayland compositors...

[shmerl]

Supporting ancient GPUs is not worth keeping everything else back. Having some legacy branch for them is good enough for those who need it for some r...

[shmerl]

What about moving away from EGL completely and using Vulkan / WSI instead?

[shmerl]

Looking forward to AV1 encoder code in radv + ffmpeg and then OBS using that. VAAPI takes forever to materialize.

[shmerl]

What's the story with AV1 VAAPI encoder for AMD by the way?

Doesn't look like it exists even for RDNA 3.

[shmerl]

What RAM are you using in the tests? It's an important metric when you are measuring cache performance, because lower clocked RAM set ups benefits from...

[shmerl]

I assume it's because 7950X wasn't used in 105W eco mode. That would have been an interesting comparison with 7950X3D.

Many pointed out,...