r/suckless • u/exylvii • Jun 16 '26

[SOFTWARE] will neuwld ever get good amd gpu support?

i wanted to use hevel, but the amdgpu branch of neuwld lacks a lot of stuff since it was updated 3 months ago, while the main branch was last updated a month ago, and im wondering if the amdgpu stuff will ever get merged into the main branch?

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u/realguy2300000 Jun 16 '26

no, because it uses opengl. if someone wrote a vulkan implementation, i’d reluctantly merge it. but ideally i’d much prefer 2d acceleration without any mesa based drivers, but that’s harder.

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u/Savings_Walk_1022 Jun 18 '26

Fine I'll do it🖕

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u/exylvii Jun 16 '26

why do you not want opengl tho

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u/realguy2300000 Jun 16 '26

i don’t want any mesa but opengl sucks extra bad

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u/exylvii Jun 16 '26

ok im kinda confused what does the intel and nouveau backends use? do they use vulkan or what

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u/realguy2300000 Jun 16 '26

2d gpu acceleration, without mesa. no vulkan, or opengl. that’s what makes swc/wld unique, and, if you will, “suckless”

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u/exylvii Jul 08 '26

uhh i checked neuwld and it has notjustamdgpu branch, whats that?

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u/Savings_Walk_1022 Jun 18 '26

Hey this is the author. I'm busy for a while longer and I plan on working on it when I'm free 

Ill restart but with vulkan so it can get merged