Wayland showstoppers wiki page

[Martin Flöser]

Am 2017-10-12 17:33, schrieb Martin Flöser:
> Am 2017-10-12 13:48, schrieb David Edmundson:
>> I've added some things, that I think are essential.
>> 
>> I think we should track assignment on the existing phabricator tasks
>> list.
>> Note there's also the bugzilla keyword "wayland" for searching over
>> all our software.
>> 
>> I'm glad you're more on the fence about the EGL stream support. I
>> switched one of my machines to nvidia after we had that lock screen
>> bug, so I've been reading over the relevant Qt commit. It doesn't look
>> particularly intrusive.
> 
> It would be invasive to the DRM platform. That's the main issue I see.
> Otherwise I notice two things:
>  * the weston patches haven't been merged yet
>  * the GBM replacement isn't even close to getting finished
> 
> I doubt this situation will change any time soon. Given that I'm not
> that much against it as I was a year ago.
> 
> BUT! I fear that the GBM replacement will never happen if we also add
> support for EGLStream.

There's one more thing to consider: XWayland doesn't support EGLStream. 
So gaming on Wayland even if we support EGLStream doesn't work on NVIDIA 
as long as the games don't support Wayland (and that's the case 
unfortunately). I added this as an additional point to the showstoppers.

Cheers
Martin