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

[Pekka Paalanen]

On Thu, 13 Apr 2023 16:08:22 +0200
Tarek Sander <tsanderdev at gmail.com> wrote:

> > 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.

It indeed is.


Thanks,
pq
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