running Wayland on set-top-box

[Daniel]

El dl 17 de 10 de 2011 a les 08:12 +0800, en/na Zhao, Juan J va
escriure:
> Yes, you problem can be resolved by a wayland compositor with a
> DirectFB backend. 
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> The compositor’s drawing work can be done by directFB with your own HW
> acceleration.

I was under the impression that Wayland relied on clients using EGL for
drawing, as EGL buffers is all it understands. Is that wrong?

> Be patient, there will be such an component sooner or later. J
> 

What code would need to be written to have a framebuffer version of
Wayland?
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> *^_^* BRs,
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> Juan
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> +juan.j.zhao=intel.com at lists.freedesktop.org] On Behalf Of haithem
> rahmani
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> Subject: Re: running Wayland on set-top-box
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>         I read on Phoronix that Wayland can run on plain Linux
>         framebuffer, you
>         could also try building Mesa with just swrast without the
>         accelerated
>         drivers but I'm not sure how it works (performance might be
>         degraded) and I
>         haven't tried since I'm currently running Wayland on Nouveau
>         (finally I can
>         see something, just the window decorator but that's way better
>         than
>         garbage).
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>         http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=ODgxMg
>         http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=OTI0MA
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> OK, but it said that a simple terminal consumed 8Gb of RAM, I don't
> have such memory on
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> a set-top-box :(
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>         If your application is written using GTK+ or Qt it might be
>         better to try
>         running it on DirectFB instead of using Wayland.
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> Actually this is the origin of my issues, GTK+-3.x has dropped the
> directfb backend and
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> is providing a wayland one now, qt lighthouse will be based on wayland
> too, and in the set-top-box world the most famous library supporting
> hw acceleration is DirectFB, so I'm looking to see if it is possible
> to have wayland on DirectFB or not.
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