Thomas Leonard writes: > On Wed, 3 Nov 2021 at 11:37, Alyssa Ross 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