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WIP: Implement WINDOW_DIRECT_WAYLAND

Ghost User requested to merge (removed):acquire-wl-display into master

This depends on an as-of-yet nonstandardized (1) Wayland protocol and (2) Vulkan extension.

The Wayland protocol is being discussed on wayland-devel:

https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-devel/2019-October/040940.html

An implementation is available for wlroots and sway.

The Vulkan extension is being discussed here:

https://github.com/KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs/pull/1001

A Mesa implementation for radv is available here. Implementing it for other drivers should be trivial if you want to test it on some other Mesa Vulkan driver; the bulk of the changes are in shared WSI code.

Open questions:

  • How much of this can we/should we share with WINDOW_DIRECT_RANDR? That file is already abstracted between DIRECT_RANDR and DIRECT_NVIDA, but both use X so the file is ill-prepared to be further abstracted for Wayland. Two functions between direct_randr/direct_nvidia and direct_wayland are 1:1 identical, and a third has a lot of similar code and may be abstractable. Perhaps code sharing is the right compromise?
  • VLAs?
Edited by Jakob Bornecrantz

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