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phoronix
02-16-2009, 11:50 AM
Phoronix: Wayland's Eagle EGL Stack Gets Working DRI2

It has been a while since last talking about Wayland, which is a new display server for Linux designed around newer X technologies like kernel mode-setting and the Graphics Execution Manager. Wayland is being developed as a side-project by Red Hat's Kristian Høgsberg...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=NzA2OQ
ethana2
02-16-2009, 12:22 PM
Now as of this morning, the Eagle EGL stack has a working DRI2 back-end as of this commit.

'as of' used twice in one sentence, doesn't flow right.

Remove this comment when fixed.
bulletxt
02-16-2009, 12:38 PM
I wonder if wayland's goal is to "compete" with xorg one day.
wswartzendruber
02-16-2009, 01:45 PM
X11 has a lot of legacy code in it. They're trying to start over again.
BlackStar
02-16-2009, 02:00 PM
I wonder, are they thinking of bringing OpenGL ES support to the desktop? That way be way cool.
etnlWings
02-16-2009, 11:35 PM
I don't know if Wayland will ever become a completely viable alternative to x.org but damnit, I hope so.
89c51
02-17-2009, 03:45 AM
as far as i understand the whole thing (ie reading the FAQ) it can be a complete alternative to X as long as someone writes a remote rendering server for wayland

Hoegsberg mentioned on his blog that he plans to port GTK on it and i dont know if someone works on porting QT
sundown
02-17-2009, 06:38 AM
I don't get it. Will this intend to replace X11 at some point or is it just a hobby?
etnlWings
02-17-2009, 07:46 AM
It started as a hobby but now no one really knows where it's going. There's certainly interest in the concept but no one's making any finite plans for the project's future or application.
wswartzendruber
02-17-2009, 08:55 AM
A Qt port would be awesome! I'm guessing a Wayland system would use next to nothing for RAM.
smitty3268
02-17-2009, 01:22 PM
I doubt Qt is putting resources into it yet, but they were definitely interested. They wrote their own display server for Qtopia (phones) that they would love to replace with Wayland if possible.
89c51
03-11-2009, 11:22 AM
since there has been a conversation about backends and stuff here:

kristian announced that he has written a backend for clutter

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~krh/clutter
Michael
03-11-2009, 11:33 AM
since there has been a conversation about backends and stuff here:

kristian announced that he has written a backend for clutter

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~krh/clutter (http://cgit.freedesktop.org/%7Ekrh/clutter)

Yep, covered @ http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NzEzNQ