From: Alyssa Ross <hi@alyssa.is>
To: Thomas Leonard <talex5@gmail.com>
Cc: Michael Raskin <7c6f434c@mail.ru>, discuss@spectrum-os.org
Subject: Re: New user getting started questions
Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2021 12:58:48 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bl2sp3p3.fsf@alyssa.is> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAG4opy_ATsFXaj1MKTyn4Cq5e-ngybS4utUQs8EGJDoaJqA93A@mail.gmail.com>
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Thomas Leonard <talex5@gmail.com> writes:
> On Wed, 3 Nov 2021 at 11:37, Alyssa Ross <hi@alyssa.is> wrote:
>>
>> Have you seen the new mechanism for Wayland over virtio-gpu context
>> types that Google are moving towards? It's supported in mainline Linux
>> now, and in Sommelier. I'd expect virtio-wl to go away at some point in
>> favour of that.
>
> Ah, is that released already? I saw you mentioned it in your handy
> graphics write-up, but I thought it wasn't due until Linux 5.16:
> https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=VirtIO-Linux-5.16-Ctx-Type
You're right. They've just made it toLinus's git tree. But they should
be ready for testing if you're brave! :P
> I don't know any details about it, but unless it's massively more
> complicated than virtwl it shouldn't be any trouble to switch to it.
> Will be nice not having to port virtwl to each new kernel!
>> Also, I've been following some Qubes work recently, and it sounds like
>> they might be interested in doing X11 over Wayland in a way that
>> wouldn't need special compositor support (and the corresponding
>> potential for security bugs). It sounds like it would be a lot of work
>> though, so we'll see…
>
> Isn't that what Sommelier and wayland-proxy-virtwl are both doing
> already though? There's no need for any X11 support in the host
> compositor with them.
Oh I didn't realise that. So the host compositor doesn't have to
implement an X11 window manager and speak back to the Xserver, like it
does in a normal XWayland setup[1]?
[1]: https://wayland.freedesktop.org/docs/html/ch05.html#sect-X11-Application-Support-architecture
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-11-10 12:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-01-05 19:27 Thomas Leonard
2021-01-05 20:09 ` Michael Raskin
2021-01-06 7:04 ` Alyssa's break Alyssa Ross
2021-01-06 9:11 ` Michał "rysiek" Woźniak
2021-01-06 7:00 ` New user getting started questions Alyssa Ross
2021-01-06 15:56 ` Thomas Leonard
2021-01-07 11:38 ` Thomas Leonard
2021-01-07 15:33 ` Thomas Leonard
2021-01-14 12:29 ` Alyssa Ross
2021-01-14 12:51 ` Alyssa Ross
2021-01-20 13:04 ` Thomas Leonard
2021-01-27 17:31 ` Thomas Leonard
2021-03-07 12:52 ` Thomas Leonard
2021-03-09 16:59 ` Qubes-lite With KVM and Wayland Alyssa Ross
2021-03-10 14:19 ` Thomas Leonard
2021-03-10 22:34 ` Alyssa Ross
2021-03-09 16:25 ` New user getting started questions Alyssa Ross
2021-03-13 7:21 ` Thomas Leonard
2021-03-13 13:52 ` Alyssa Ross
2021-10-30 12:58 ` Thomas Leonard
2021-11-03 11:36 ` Alyssa Ross
2021-11-03 18:27 ` Thomas Leonard
2021-11-10 12:58 ` Alyssa Ross [this message]
2021-11-10 12:00 ` Thomas Leonard
2021-11-11 11:09 ` Alyssa Ross
2021-11-11 16:12 ` Thomas Leonard
2021-11-12 10:47 ` Alyssa Ross
2022-03-13 15:08 ` Thomas Leonard
2022-03-15 14:06 ` Alyssa Ross
2022-03-15 20:23 ` Alyssa Ross
2022-03-16 16:18 ` Using virtio-gpu instead of virtwl Thomas Leonard
2022-03-16 16:54 ` Alyssa Ross
2022-03-21 12:10 ` Thomas Leonard
2022-03-21 16:05 ` Alyssa Ross
2022-03-22 11:08 ` Thomas Leonard
2022-03-22 11:16 ` Alyssa Ross
2022-03-22 20:05 ` Thomas Leonard
2022-04-06 12:19 ` Thomas Leonard
2022-04-13 17:12 ` Thomas Leonard
2022-04-14 13:57 ` Alyssa Ross
2022-04-19 12:58 ` Thomas Leonard
2022-04-19 12:01 ` Alyssa Ross
2022-05-15 15:20 ` Thomas Leonard
2022-05-16 11:55 ` Alyssa Ross
2022-05-18 9:55 ` Thomas Leonard
2022-06-05 16:29 ` Thomas Leonard
2022-08-09 12:00 ` Alyssa Ross
2022-10-10 15:16 ` Thomas Leonard
2022-10-10 16:53 ` Alyssa Ross
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