[Mesa-users] Does Mesa use Wayland shared memory buffers when rendering with llvmpipe?

Tarek Sander tsanderdev at gmail.com
Thu Apr 13 14:08:22 UTC 2023


> On Thu, 13 Apr 2023 15:16:05 +0200
> Tarek Sander<tsanderdev at gmail.com>  wrote:
>
>> I want to implement a Wayland compositor and need to know if Mesa uses
>> wl_shm_pool for allocating the buffers or zwp_linux_dmabuf_v1 when
>> running llvmpipe.
> Hi,
>
> Mesa softpipe and llvmpipe use wl_shm buffers.
>
>
> Thanks,
> pq
Thanks, I already though so but wanted to confirm. wh_shm_pool seems 
like it was made exactly for software rendering.




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