<html xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2004/12/omml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"><head><meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"><meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 12 (filtered medium)"><style></style></head><body lang=ZH-CN link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Yes, you problem can be resolved by a wayland compositor with a DirectFB backend. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>The compositor’s drawing work can be done by directFB with your own HW acceleration.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>QT/GTK/DFB applications can work as a client side. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Be patient, there will be such an component sooner or later. </span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Wingdings;color:#1F497D'>J</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>-----<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>*^_^* BRs,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Juan</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-left:solid blue 1.5pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 4.0pt'><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> wayland-devel-bounces+juan.j.zhao=intel.com@lists.freedesktop.org [mailto:wayland-devel-bounces+juan.j.zhao=intel.com@lists.freedesktop.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>haithem rahmani<br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, October 17, 2011 4:43 AM<br><b>To:</b> wayland-devel@lists.freedesktop.org<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: running Wayland on set-top-box<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0cm'><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span lang=EN-US>I read on Phoronix that Wayland can run on plain Linux framebuffer, you<br>could also try building Mesa with just swrast without the accelerated<br>drivers but I'm not sure how it works (performance might be degraded) and I<br>haven't tried since I'm currently running Wayland on Nouveau (finally I can<br>see something, just the window decorator but that's way better than<br>garbage).<br><br><a href="http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=ODgxMg" target="_blank">http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=ODgxMg</a><br><a href="http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=OTI0MA" target="_blank">http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=OTI0MA</a><o:p></o:p></span></p></blockquote><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>OK, but it said that a simple terminal consumed 8Gb of RAM, I don't have such memory on<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>a set-top-box :(<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>If your application is written using GTK+ or Qt it might be better to try<br>running it on DirectFB instead of using Wayland.<o:p></o:p></span></p></blockquote><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Actually this is the origin of my issues, GTK+-3.x has dropped the directfb backend and<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>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.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>-- <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><i><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#666666'>"If you ask a question - you will be a fool for 5 minutes, otherwise ignorant for rest of your life"</span></i><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"'HARF KFCPHQ'","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></div></div></body></html>