Problems with the newest wayland git

[Scott Moreau]

On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 12:00 PM, Bill Spitzak <spitzak at gmail.com> wrote:

> Pekka Paalanen wrote:
>
>  There have been complaints, that current Mesa does not work for
>> software rendering in the Wayland stack, but I don't really know
>> about that. It seems to be an uninteresting topic for Wayland devs
>> (me included).
>>
>
> It does sound like https://bugs.freedesktop.org/**show_bug.cgi?id=56741<https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56741>
>
> Do you have any explanation as to why the *shell* works? It is using EGL
> to composite. I can run an arbitrary number of simple_shm programs and it
> manages to composite them just fine.
>
> Also why does "flower" work exactly once?
>
> It does seem like this may be easy to fix by changing how the egl buffers
> are allocated.
>
> I would say this is a pretty major problem for Wayland. For a lot of
> people interested in developing the wayland api, software rendering is the
> only thing that works while still being able to run the development
> environment.
>
>
I believe all open drivers should work with drm at this point. There was a
nouveau kernel module bug that was recently fixed. The report can be found
here https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54576


Scott
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