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I don't know when the Wayland driver will be available. Was told "it's a big job," or something to that effect. So it might still be some time before it's ready.
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I suspect this will be supported in the Wayland driver -- which I've been told is in the works.
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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
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Wayland support is in the works, as per:
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Christopher Carr
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Mir is dead and Ubuntu is moving to Gnome and Wayland. Wayland support will be necessary sooner rather than later.
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I thought I would note that rotation *is* possible on some systems. I got it working on Arch/Gnome.
Google for the correct configurations.