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X.Org Server Lands Big Improvement For Using Zink With GLAMOR


A nice improvement was merged today to the X.Org Server for benefiting the GLAMOR 2D acceleration code when using the Zink OpenGL-on-Vulkan driver.

A nice improvement was merged today to the X.Org Server for benefiting the GLAMOR 2D acceleration code when using the Zink OpenGL-on-Vulkan driver. Now with this newly-merged code, DMA-BUF buffer sharing is enabled when using Zink with GLAMOR for more efficient handling. Faith Ekstrand of Collabora authored the change three months ago and commented in the merge request:"Zink badly needs dma-buf and modifiers as it can't handle BO import of tiled buffers without modifiers.

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