will wayland support multi plane?

[Zhao, Juan J]

That looks great!:)
One simple question, what is compositor-drm? Is that one drm kernel
module special for wayland?

On Thu, 2011-04-28 at 12:51 +0200, Benjamin Franzke wrote:
> Yeah, we'll work on integrating the kms overlay stuff, thats talked
> about on dri-devel [1], into compositor-drm as well as
> compositor-openwfd.
> 
> [1] http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dri-devel/2011-April/010559.html
> 
> Ben
> 
> 2011/4/28 Marcus Lorentzon <marcus.xm.lorentzon at stericsson.com>:
> > On 04/28/2011 11:27 AM, Zhao, Juan J wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi there,
> >>        Some embedded system provide more than one plan to work at the same
> >> time to get better performance. For example, one video running on one
> >> plane and one other video or graphics run on the other plane.
> >>        Will wayland take this to be considered? One video on plane A, one
> >> window on Plane B, and the cursor in on Plane C....
> >>
> >>
> >
> > Maybe the new OpenWF Display compositor will make this possible. As I
> > understand, overlays are not "standard" in KMS, but by abstracting KMS with
> > OpenWFD, any vendor providing OpenWFD drivers with multiple pipes should be
> > able to get overlays in the "demo" wayland compositor (as long as the
> > compositor is extended to make use of multiple pipes).
> >
> > See
> > http://cgit.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland-demos/tree/compositor/compositor-openwfd.c.
> >
> > I guess Ben can give more details on the target of this new compositor.
> >
> > /BR
> > /Marcus
> >
> >


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