Mesa nouveau NVK driver and egl

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Hi Brian I wanted to get this info to you as early as possible. I don't know how much you follow mesa development, they have implemented a new driver for nouveau NVK which is vulkan based it requires egl-wayland to be removed for it to work on linux. See section 1.1 in below link. https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Nouveau

Having a look through mesa_options.txt I saw egl as only rendering option at the moment. I realise your in early stages of dev but being a user of NVK with xfce4 wayland using the labwc compositor I wanted to pass on the info.

Looking at how mesa is developing NVK for Nvidia Card users it's going to be the de-facto driver for Nouveau users moving forward. The reasons for this it give users the same or very close to, performance levels as the propitiatorily Nvidia driver. NVK has vastly improved stability, better fictionality and double vkmark benchmark scores. Working with Kepler (600 700) and newer cards which covers what most people will be using.

I have also found that if xwayland is enbled all the time instead of enabling and disabling as and when apps need it. Being enabled all the time causes major stack traces in nouveau with the current release of Xwayland.

I hope you find the information useful an avid user of xfce for over 15 years.