Explicit GPU Synchronization for Xwayland Is Now Finally Merged into XOrg Server
While the explicit sync protocol already landed into the Wayland protocols, it still needs to be implemented in a few other components, such as Wayland compositors and the proprietary NVIDIA driver, for everything to finally work flawlessly on using an NVIDIA GPU on Linux.
After a year of waiting, NVIDIA’s proposal for adding explicit GPU synchronization to the DRI3 and Present extensions, along with an implementation for Xwayland, was finally merged today into the XOrg Server. If you’re wondering why this matters, Xwayland is still being used for backward compatibility with X11 apps on Wayland sessions.
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Explicit GPU Synchronization for Xwayland now merged
The day is finally here. Xwayland now has the code for Explicit GPU Synchronization merged after waiting over a year for everything to be ready. It's a pretty big deal and should make NVIDIA GPU users especially happy in future.