[Glamor] Wayland / Glamor DDX?

[darxus at chaosreigns.com]

Yes.  Once a glamor DDX independent of intel hardware is created, doing
the exact same modifications to it as
git://anongit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-intel branch xwayland
to be able to output via the wayland protocol instead of directly to
the display.

It seems likely to be useful to post to the wayland mailing list with any
questions.  

How is the creation of a glamor DDX independent of intel hardware going?


Also, can I get write access to the wiki, user name "Darxus", so I can do
some grammar correction?  Last time that was up, it looked like logging in
wasn't enough to let me edit it.  And it's down again, so I can't verify.

On 03/08, He Junyan wrote:
> If  I do not misunderstand, you want an implementation in glamor to
> support XWayland,  just like
> the work of xwayland branch in xf86-video-intel. Using Glamor to
> generate the textures for wayland
> to composite will decrease the work for specific DDX's modification
> and can still solve the legacy
> problem between X and wayland. It seems a good idea, the effect
> should be estimated.
> 
> 
> 
> On 03/08/2013 02:38 AM, darxus at chaosreigns.com wrote:
> >Wayland (http://wayland.freedesktop.org/  ) could use a hardware
> >independent, hardware accelerated DDX.  Similar to its wlshm DDX, but with
> >hardware acceleration.  It has come up a few times that Glamor would
> >probably be a good way to do that.
> >
> >So I thought it was worth mentioning here, in case anybody around here
> >would have some idea where to begin.
> >
> >Wayland is a display server protocol (library) intended to replace X,
> >created by people who have worked on X for a long time.  Weston is its
> >reference implementation.
> >
> >It has great backward compatibility with X, called XWayland, by running a
> >full instance of X.org rootless:http://wayland.freedesktop.org/xserver.html
> >This requires some modifications to the DDXes so that output gets written
> >to the Wayland display server.
> >
> >The hardware specific DDXes with existing Wayland support are Intel,
> >AMD/Radeon/ATI, and Nvidia/Nouveau (open source).  The Intel one is kept
> >up to date.  The ATI one apparently needs some work related to multiple
> >displays, and the Nouveau one needs a couple patches applied:
> >http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-devel/2013-March/007807.html
> >
> >krh, the creator of wayland, once said to vignatti, who does a lot of
> >work on xwayland: "xwayland support in xf8-video-intel is still useful,
> >but it would be good to have a generic ddx that supports wayland, either
> >with shm and sw rendering or egl+glamor".
> >
> >There is an active #wayland channel on irc.freenode.net.
> >
> >There's a bunch of info on the state of Wayland here:
> >http://www.chaosreigns.com/wiki/Wayland_State
> >
> 
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