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Author: Haelwenn (lanodan) Monnier <contact@hacktivis.me>
Date:   Tue,  5 Mar 2024 08:32:15 +0100

notes/pure-wayland: Yay to NVK and finally using GBM

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diff --git a/notes/pure-wayland.shtml b/notes/pure-wayland.shtml @@ -28,9 +28,9 @@ <p>Also, in terms of history:</p> <ul> <li>After almost 10 years NVidia has yet to provide a complete enough driver for Wayland</li> - <li>Instead of providing the GBM API like everyone else, including other proprietary drivers (there is a lot of them on the embedded side of things), they created EGLStreams, which means a very large chunk of code (and so bugs) specific to NVidia</li> + <li><del>Instead of providing the GBM API like everyone else, including other proprietary drivers (there is a lot of them on the embedded side of things), they created EGLStreams, which means a very large chunk of code (and so bugs) specific to NVidia</del></li> <li>Contributes to a huge waste of chips by stopping the support of GPUs after about 5 years</li> - <li>Has basically been trashing any hope for nouveau to be a complete driver (check FOSDEM videos of the nouveau developers)</li> + <li><del>Has basically been trashing any hope for nouveau to be a complete driver (check FOSDEM videos of the nouveau developers)</del></li> <li>NVidia performance vs. AMDGPU performance on linux doesn't have a very large gap on real-life loads</li> <li><a href="https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/support-for-async-reprojection/123382">Doesn't provides async reprojection on linux, so no VR for you</a> (Or a lot of those nice Vulkan speedups)</li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nvidia_Optimus#Linux_support">Remember how awful Nvidia Optimus is?</a></li>