wayland and compositor

[Tiago Vignatti]

On 03/21/2011 05:51 AM, ext Zhao, Juan J wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I thought wayland itself is one compositor. And if want to dig a hole on
> the frame buffer to support some HW features, I need to modify the
> wayland’s compositor.
>
> I am not sure whether I am right? Would someone professional explain this?

It's protocol for client-server communication that enable build a 
compositor and display manager, and clients to talk with it. Check out 
more info in the web page, specially architecture and faq sections:

     http://wayland.freedesktop.org/


Cheers,
         Tiago