With Vulkan 1.1 It's Technically Possible To Write A Pure Wayland Compositor

[phoronix]

Phoronix: With Vulkan 1.1 It's Technically Possible To Write A Pure Wayland Compositor

With Vulkan 1.1 it should be technically possible to write a driver/vendor-agnostic Wayland compositor using Vulkan thanks to the new core extensions...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Vulkan-1.1-Wayland-Compositor

[davidbepo]

vulkan is a really awesome api

[bachchain]

And it shall be written in rust

[GunpowaderGuy]

thanks Michael ! , if not for this article probably would have known my question had been answered in like six months

[GunpowaderGuy]

is time to start discussing the deprecation of opengl ( in addition to open cl which khronos had already been planning ) then . How are translation layers from this apis to vulkan going ?

[kalin]

And it shall be written in rust

why ?

[soulsource]

is time to start discussing the deprecation of opengl ( in addition to open cl which khronos had already been planning ) then . How are translation layers from this apis to vulkan going ?

May I ask for a source for the claim that OpenCL is going to be deprecated?

[Azrael5]

I assume that this is one of the most astonishing news of this year about the good process of evolution on graphical linux environment.

[Azrael5]

May vulkan developers make a wayland/vulkan compositor?

[gufide]

Yes.. YES! All hail vulkan!

Even if it needs two code paths, it's supported by all hardware vendors, whereas EGLStream is almost only NVidia AFAIK.