Wayland support

[helloIAmPau]

Hi all,
do you have any plan to support wayland?

It looks to be the new standard for Linux (in Arch Linux already it is) and it is a little frustrating I can't use my dell dock at work.

Thanks and have a nice day :)

[displaylink-mlukaszek]

Our distro of focus is Ubuntu, so after X is dropped it will probably be Mir first. However, I thought Wayland still builds on KMS? Page flipping support is already present in evdi as this is how Chrome OS and its Ozone interfaces with it.

I'll keep this open, in hope that someone familiar with Wayland takes over and proposes changes if necessary.

[sheepdestroyer]

wayland becomes default in Fedora 25 next week too
would be nice to keep using my two external screens at work when I update.

[helloIAmPau]

Ok, I can confirm that evdi works fine on Ubuntu and I don't have any problem to switch the Linux distribution on my laptop. It will be great to have it working on Arch as well, but I can wait for it.

I have it working nearly without bugs on F24 Wayland. F25 evdi doesnt work at all.
4.8.8-200.fc24 ,4.8.8-300.fc25

Fedora 25, up to date. Displaylink installed without any issues.

https://gist.github.com/ment0s/fc9a11c6b77a41870e215e7a5d4522dc

[displaylink-mlukaszek]

To work with Wayland, evdi lacks GBM. For anyone that would be willing to have a go and develop a GBM backend, here's how it was already implemented for Chrome OS in their minigbm: https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/platform/minigbm/+/master/evdi.c

[konradrenner]

So with Ubuntu shifting back to GNOME: https://insights.ubuntu.com/2017/04/05/growing-ubuntu-for-cloud-and-iot-rather-than-phone-and-convergence/
they will also use Wayland as display server in the future. So any chance to get Wayland support :-) ?

[cacarr-pdxweb]

With the aforementioned death of Mir and Ubuntu's move to Wayland, it would be nice to know DisplayLink's intentions -- support Wayland or give up on Linux desktop distros entirely?

*** update ***

Wayland support is in the works, apparently. Alban Rampon on Twitter: "It's a big job, in progress."

[MichaelJCole]

Pinged Alban Rampon on Twitter. He hasn't gotten back to me yet. Maybe you have better luck?

[cacarr-pdxweb]

Haven't hear anything more from Alban Rampon.

Sure would be nice to use my DisplayLink display in vertical orientation, with my Antergos-running X1 Carbon.

[agronholm]

I doubt this will ever happen, as Thunderbolt/USB-C type docks are becoming increasingly common and require no specific software drivers.