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NVIDIA Presents Plans To Support Mir and Wayland On Linux

Posted by Soulskill on from the going-official dept.

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.

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  1. Seems incorrect by Richy_T · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Seems more like NVidia should be providing some kind of generic global driver and the display software (whichever it may be) should interface with it. I thought we were past the point of each piece of software needing special drivers to interface with hardware. Isn't this the whole point of a modern OS? What happens when "the next big thing" comes alone?

  2. Re:Ob by styrotech · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I think systemd should go and develop its own kernel.