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

[Kristian Høgsberg]

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?

Kristian