On Sun, Feb 11, 2024 at 1:50 AM Kilian Hanich <khanich.opensou...@gmx.de> wrote: > > Am 10.02.24 um 09:47 schrieb Neal Gompa: > > Technically, turning off display sync completely is quite difficult > > right now since the actual driver stack in Linux underneath everything > > (both Wayland and X11) uses implicit sync right now (Linux kernel > > drivers, Mesa drivers, etc.). > > > > Interesting considering that I once read (but haven't fact check) that > the Vulkan spec explicitly requires explicit sync instead of implicit, > even if you for parts of it. >
I don't know enough about Vulkan to confidently say one way or another. Especially since I'm pretty sure parts of it are one and the other. > > That said, there's a move to support explicit sync in Wayland[1], and > > the first steps of that for KWin have been written up as a merge > > request[2]. Once there's an agreed upon mechanism for explicit sync, > > it would be possible to support something like that. > > > > [1]:https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland-protocols/-/merge_requests/90 > > [2]:https://invent.kde.org/plasma/kwin/-/merge_requests/4800 > > Interesting read. I will just hope that this won't be something which > ends up in "noone actually still looks at it"-land as some things > sometimes end up in because people focused on different things and then > forgot about it (well, kind natural for volunteer projects I guess). > That's not going to happen because Direct3D 12 requires explicit sync. That's been driving the change to support it in the Linux graphics stack in the first place. -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth! -- _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
