Allow --use-angle=vulkan when ozone platform is Wayland, fixes vaapi on amd about thorium HOT 10 OPEN

https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/c/chromium/src/+/5568860

I've got the patch to land upstream

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I think we need to carefully evaluate whether the relevant patch will break other parts. I will carefully review the chromium issue report you mentioned above later and may make some edits.

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There is even an AUR package that carries it forword if you want to test it: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/google-chrome-wayland-vulkan

Robrich also tested it: RobRich999/Chromium_Clang#26 (comment)

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Once patched VA-API should be working under Xwayland, too.

RobRich999/Chromium_Clang#26 (comment)

Perhaps X11 as well, though someone else will have to verify it.

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For the record, X11 was already working fine with VAAPI before, but native Wayland didn't work at all, even hardware acceleration is completely broken there. Xwayland also works fine for me, but it has some limitations (only software GPU memory buffers) and some users reported problems with that option. There is more discussion in the upstream bug report which I've linked in the top post.

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I have not been keeping much track of hardware decoding as I gave up long ago on conjuring the latest CLI incantations to obtain functional VA-API support. ;)

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I have submitted a CL to Google, but I don’t know if it will be approved. Google will be more cautious than us about patches that fix hardware acceleration problems on Linux.

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CL caused Lacros FYI's test suite to fail and has been reverted. I am trying to discuss a solution with the engineers.

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