Changeset 7f41c4ae for x/installing

Timestamp:

07/05/2023 01:05:20 AM (15 months ago)

Author:

Xi Ruoyao <xry111@…>

Branches:

12.0, 12.1, 12.2, gimp3, kea, ken/TL2024, ken/tuningfonts, lazarus, plabs/newcss, python3.11, rahul/power-profiles-daemon, renodr/vulkan-addition, trunk, xry111/for-12.3, xry111/llvm18, xry111/spidermonkey128, xry111/xf86-video-removal

Children:

85f02b3

Parents:

9403c3e

git-author:

Xi Ruoyao <xry111@…> (07/05/2023 01:03:04 AM)

git-committer:

Xi Ruoyao <xry111@…> (07/05/2023 01:05:20 AM)

Message:

Move Vulkan description from "Graphical Environments" to Mesa

Well, Vulkan is not an alternative of X, nor Wayland. It's an
alternative of OpenGL.

Change "libvulkan" to "Vulkan-Loader" by the way. "libvulkan" is a
library, and Vulkan-Loader is the name of the package providing it. The
URL is also updated because there is no download link at vulkan.org.

Location:

x/installing

Files:

• installing.xml (modified) (1 diff)
• mesa.xml (modified) (2 diffs)

x/installing/installing.xml

@@ -59 +59 @@
     model which allows writing applications completely independent of
     the graphical hardware. This has the drawback that accessing modern
-    hardware acceleration is difficult, so that other approaches are developed.
-    Two new systems are available: <emphasis>Wayland</emphasis> and
-    <emphasis>Vulkan</emphasis>. The former is a simpler replacement for
-    X, easier to develop and maintain, using the OpenGL framework. The main
-    desktop environments GNOME and KDE have been ported to it. The later allows
-    direct access to graphical hardware through a portable interface. It is
-    newer and not yet included in BLFS.
+    hardware acceleration is difficult, so another approach named
+    <emphasis>Wayland</emphasis> is developed.
+    It is a simpler replacement for X, easier to develop and maintain, using
+    the OpenGL framework. The main desktop environments GNOME and KDE have
+    been ported to it.
   </para>
 

x/installing/mesa.xml

@@ -134 +134 @@
       <ulink url="https://github.com/tizonia/tizonia-openmax-il/wiki/Tizonia-OpenMAX-IL/">
       libtizonia</ulink>,  and
-      <ulink url="https://www.vulkan.org/">libvulkan</ulink>
+      <ulink url="https://github.com/KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Loader">Vulkan-Loader</ulink>
     </para>
 <!--
@@ -310 +310 @@
       <parameter>-Dvulkan-drivers=""</parameter>: This switch allows choosing
       which Vulkan drivers are built. The default is auto, but this requires
-      the optional dependency <filename>glslang</filename>. So it is better
-      to pass an empty list, in order to remove the need for that
-      dependency.  Nothing in BLFS uses Vulkan anyway.
+      the optional dependencies <application>glslang</application> and
+      <application>Vulkan-Loader</application>.  Vulkan is a newer API
+      designed for utilizing the GPUs with a performance better than OpenGL,
+      but nothing in BLFS benefits from it for now.  So we pass an empty
+      list in order to remove the need for these dependencies.
     </para>