[systemd-devel] [RFC] VTs for multiple seats

[Casey Dahlin]

On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 02:15:40PM -0400, Kristian Høgsberg wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 12:22:13PM -0400, Casey Dahlin wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 09, 2012 at 06:17:13PM -0400, Kristian Høgsberg wrote:
> > > No, wayland is the protocol, weston is the compositor building
> > > toolkit.  If you want an EGL compositor on KMS with evdev input, you
> > 
> > But we don't want an EGL compositor. We want bare-bones KMS support.
> > 
> > One of the things he mentioned was replacing plymouth with the system
> > compositor. Do you really want to pack mesa into the initrd?
> > 
> > The system compositor needs to provide a lightweight SHM-only graphics
> > stack. It also needs to be able to provide the EGL stack /dynamically/
> > when the rest of userspace becomes available.
> 
> Yes, so what you want is an EGL/KMS/evdev compositor that can start
> out only using sw compositing.  How is that *smaller* than weston
> again?
> 

Good point, I suppose. If you count the module that eventually gets
plugged in to it, it would be a bit bigger.

--CJD