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NVIDIA Working On An EGLStreams Back-End For KDE On Wayland Written by Michael Larabel in KDE on 14 November 2018 at 07:45 AM EST. 36 Comments

With no recent activity on the NVIDIA-led Unix device memory allocation work that all developer communities could get behind to supersede GBM and EGLStreams for use by Wayland compositors, NVIDIA is working on an Latest Linux News EGLStreams back-end for KDE's KWin compositor. Fedora Perfecting Their Flicker-Free Boot Experience With A New Plymouth Theme Similar to the work done on an EGLStreams back-end for GNOME and other DaVinci Resolve 15.2 Video Editor Released EGLStreams work by the smaller Wayland compositors, a NVIDIA engineer is now officially With More Improvements For Its Linux Build working on an EGLStreams back-end for KWin so that the NVIDIA proprietary driver would NVIDIA Working On An EGLStreams Back- play well with KDE on Wayland. Up to now KWin has only supported the Mesa GBM End For KDE On Wayland interfaces. KDE developers have said they wouldn't invest in developing an EGLStreams back-end, but that they wouldn't be opposed if say NVIDIA would contribute and maintain MuQSS Scheduler Updated, Linux 4.19-ck1 the code -- that's what is happening now. Drops BFQ I/O Scheduler GNOME Mutter Brings More Fixes, Shell 3.31.2 Has Some Performance Work It Looks Like The Raptor Blackbird Open- Source Motherboard Will Sell For Just Under $900 C++20 Making Progress On Modules, Memory Model Updates Radeon Linux Driver Preparing Adaptive Backlight Management (ABM) Debian Packages To Eliminate Vendor- Specific Patches, Affecting Downstreams Like Ubuntu Ubuntu 19.04 Development Starts Off With Python 3.7, Merged Usr Directories

Erik Kurzinger is a member of the NVIDIA Linux graphics team and he is working on KWin Wayland compositor support with EGLDevice, EGLOutput, and EGLStream extensions. This will work alongside the current GBM code so that all existing KDE Wayland users are not affected while now also allowing the NVIDIA proprietary driver users to enjoy the maturing KDE Wayland experience. Latest Featured Articles Trying DragonFlyBSD & FreeBSD On The NVIDIA has initial proof-of-concept code working and they intend to publish the initial KWin Intel Core i9 9900K With ASUS PRIME Z390- patches soon. They relied this initial work on the KWin mailing list. KWin developers so far A have volleyed questions about possible multi-GPU support, whether NVIDIA is still working A Look At The GCC 9 Performance On Intel on a cross-vendor solution, if NVIDIA will be maintaining the EGLStreams code, testing Skylake Against GCC 8, LLVM Clang 7/8 coverage, etc. We'll see where this heads in the days/weeks to come. 16-Way AMD EPYC Cloud Benchmark Comparison: Amazon EC2 vs. SkySilk vs. Packet The Performance Impact Of Spectre Mitigation On POWER9 The Polaris/Vega Performance At The End Of Mesa 18.3 Feature Development

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