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NVIDIA Presents Plans To Support Mir and Wayland On Linux
An anonymous reader writes: AMD recently presented plans to unify their open-source and Catalyst Linux drivers at the open source XDC2014 conference in France. NVIDIA's rebuttal presentation focused on support Mir and Wayland on Linux. The next-generation display stacks are competing to succeed the X.Org Server. NVIDIA is partially refactoring their Linux graphics driver to support EGL outside of X11, to propose new EGL extensions for better driver interoperability with Wayland/Mir, and to support the KMS APIs by their driver. NVIDIA's binary driver will support the KMS APIs/ioctls but will be using their own implementation of kernel mode-setting. The EGL improvements are said to land in their closed-source driver this autumn while the other changes probably won't be seen until next year.
Does systemd have its own display stack?
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
Certainly explains why nVidia has consistently delivered good, stable drivers on free operating systems (BSD, Solaris, Linux) for such a long time, when their competitor does not.
I'm starting to think GNU is the problem with "GNU/Linux" these days.