EGL Drivers and Mir/Wayland

[Edwin Pujols]

Thanks for the clarification.


On Mon, Oct 7, 2013 at 4:28 AM, Thomas Voß <thomas.voss at canonical.com>wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 12:17 AM, Williams, Kyle
> <kyle.williams2 at stu.fayette.kyschools.us> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I am still not 100% positive what exactly EGL is, but I saw people
> talking
> > about it on a forum thread, and some were saying that if AMD/Nvidia were
> to
> > release EGL-compatible drivers, these drivers would work with both the
> Mir
> > and Wayland display servers, as they both use EGL. Is this true?
>
> That's correct. Ideally, EGL would be extended to handle
> mode-setting/multi-GPU configurations, too. If that is the case,
> display servers could theoretically be built on top of pure EGL
> drivers.
>
> > Does that
> > mean these companies would only have to release one proprietary driver
> that
> > supports EGL and it would work on both Mir and Wayland? I'm not asking
> > Ubuntu developers to say what Nvidia or AMD will do, just making a "what
> if"
> > scenario here.
> >
>
> If those drivers were available, it would work for any display server, yes.
>
> HTH,
>
>   Thomas
>
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Kyle Williams
> >
> >
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