Wayland on Embedded

[Abhijit Potnis]

Hello ,

Is there any plan to have(& maintain) a GLES2 >> framebuffer back-end for
Weston on the weston git, so as to have Weston run on hardware's that do
support GLES2 on framebuffer ?
Say for example ARM targets like the beagle-board. I know that the GLES2 >>
framebuffer implementations would become redundant once the hardware
vendors
start supporting wayland on their boards. But it would still serve the
purpose of running/testing weston (and a few software rendered apps) on
hardware that
don't yet have support for Wayland from the vendor.


On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 5:24 PM, Abhijit Potnis <abhijitpotnis at gmail.com>wrote:

>
>
> On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 5:13 PM, Pekka Paalanen <ppaalanen at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 8 May 2012 17:02:31 +0530
>> Abhijit Potnis <abhijitpotnis at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 3:54 PM, Pekka Paalanen <ppaalanen at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > > On Tue, 8 May 2012 15:34:58 +0530
>> > > Abhijit Potnis <abhijitpotnis at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > >
>> > > > Hello ,
>> > > >
>> > > > I am trying to run Wayland on an ARM based board over X, just as we
>> run
>> > > > Wayland/Weston on a x86 Linux Desktop Machine. I doubt if compiling
>> > > Wayland
>> > > > and its dependencies for ARM platform and building Weston so as to
>> run on
>> > > > X11 back-end would work. Or do I have to write a new back-end for
>> Weston.
>> > > >
>> > > > How do I go about this ?
>> > >
>> > > Hi,
>> > >
>> > > there is very little point in running Wayland on top of X, unless you
>> > > are developing or simply curious. What is your aim?
>> > >
>> >
>> > "Proprietary driver restriction" for running Wayland on the HW, so
>> running
>> > it on top of X.
>>
>> And no way to do GL ES 2 on the framebuffer directly? If there is a
>> way, you could get Weston running without X by writing a new backend.
>>
>>
> There should be GLES2 > fb on the board. This is a good idea. I will give
> a try.
>
>
>>  > The System does not use Mesa for 3D drivers, so I guess there won't be
>> any
>> > GL support for Wayland Clients. So is it a dead end, or some Wayland
>> > clients might still work ?
>>
>> Shared memory buffer passing (implies software rendering) should still
>> work, yes. You can start experimenting with simple-shm. Toytoolkit
>> clients that do not explicitly use GL should work, too.
>>
>>
>>
> I shall try this first.
>
>
>> HTH,
>> pq
>>
>
> Does help.Thanks
>
> --
> Regards,
> Abhijit Potnis
>
>


-- 
Regards,
Abhijit Potnis
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