Starting document for porting wayland to mali gpu

[Simon Hong]

After I read your reply and link, a lot of terms (dri2, drm, kms and
etc) are not familiar with me.
I think I need more study about this.

Thank you for sharing your blog.

Simon.

On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 5:45 PM, Pekka Paalanen <ppaalanen at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Mar 2012 05:50:02 +0900
> Simon Hong <simon.hong81 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Dear folks,
>>
>> I'm new to wayland and want to port wayland on Mali GPU.
>> Any advice, articles or document for start porting for wayland newbie.
>
> Hi,
>
> apart from the wayland website (I assume you already read all of it), I
> have a writing that might help in understanding the existing works:
> http://ppaalanen.blogspot.com/2012/03/what-does-egl-do-in-wayland-stack.html
>
> In what level do you plan to port? Can you modify your EGL library?
> Are you using proprietary or open driver stack? (I don't know
> anything about Mali drivers.)
>
> If you want to port Weston, the easiest thing is probably to write a
> new backend that will use whatever accelerated framebuffer graphics
> API you have. Or if your platform supports DRM and KMS, the drm backend
> might work with some changes. Once you have Weston running, you should
> have unaccelerated (shm buffer passing) Wayland clients running,
> too.
>
> Supporting accelerated Wayland clients practically requires
> implementing Wayland support in the EGL library. The other option is to
> implement it ad hoc, but then you need to fix every single application,
> too. Decent performance requires the ability to pass hardware graphics
> buffers (handles) from one process to another.
>
>
> HTH,
> pq



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