NVIDIA Driver Soon Likely To Support EGL, Mir

Posted by Ridcully on Jun 20, 2013 6:46 AM EDT
Phoronix; By Michael Larabel
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While there hasn't been any official communication out of NVIDIA yet, it's likely that their binary display driver will soon be bearing EGL support to complement their GLX windowing system support. The EGL interface is for sitting between OpenGL and the windowing system. EGL is used by Google's Android operating system for mobile devices. Beyond that, both the Mir Display Server and Wayland/Weston are using EGL rather than the GLX windowing system API.

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