VMware's SVGA Gallium3D Driver Getting NIR'ed

[phoronix]

Phoronix: VMware's SVGA Gallium3D Driver Getting NIR'ed

Following the open-source NVIDIA "Nouveau" driver switching to NIR by default, the VMware SVGA Gallium3D driver has also landed NIR-to-TGSI support in mainline...

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=VMware-SVGA-NIR-2022

[caligula]

Am I wrong here? Isn't this driver for Xorg? Or does it use modesetting + KMS? How does it help Wayland?

[Quackdoc]

I wonder if the code clean up will speed up compile times? pretty doubtful for my use, but interesting to see anyway

Am I wrong here? Isn't this driver for Xorg? Or does it use modesetting + KMS? How does it help Wayland?

what?

svga is just vmware's gallium driver. like radeonsi or iris.

[bridgman]

Am I wrong here? Isn't this driver for Xorg? Or does it use modesetting + KMS? How does it help Wayland?

This is the 3D driver (Mesa) which can work with either X or Wayland. There is a separate X driver (like "modesetting") that handles 2D for X.

I don't think this particular change does anything to help or hurt Wayland, just gets all the 3D drivers (at least the gallium3D drivers) using newer/better common code.