[Patch 0/5 v2] Improve wayland-drm to wayland-gbm to act as generic buffer manager for wayland

Juan Zhao juan.j.zhao at linux.intel.com
Mon Apr 23 19:18:19 PDT 2012


  On 04/23/2012 05:02 PM, Zhao, Halley wrote:
> == version 2:
>    - follow Gwenole's feed back to change wayland_gbm_* to wl_gbm_*
>    - use Evolution to send the patch (some previous patches sent from
> outlook are blocked)
>    - add patch 5 to change file names from *drm* to *gbm*
>
> == original patch information
> EGL implements wayland-drm protocol, however, it hasn't been used by
> vappi yet since EGL doesn't export wl_drm(bnf think it is bad style).
>
> After some thought, I improve wayland-drm to base on gbm instead.
> The module name changes to wayland-gbm as well, gbm is platform
> independent, Expect it will be ok to export wl_gbm through libEGL.
Using gbm looks like more general, because on powervr platforms, they 
may have some thing similar to wl_pvr which is similar to wl_drm.

Thanks,
Juan

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