Wayland on Embedded

[Pekka Paalanen]

On Tue, 20 Nov 2012 12:34:54 +0530
Abhijit Potnis <abhijitpotnis at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello Henius,
> 
> 
> On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 3:34 PM, Henius Dong <donglw at pset.suntec.net> wrote:
> 
> > Hello Abhijit
> >
> > I saw the topic "Wayland on Embedded" in wayland-devel mailing list. I'm
> > interested in this topic too. But, I'm naive in this topic now. So, I write
> > a mail to you to see whether you could give me some hints or not?
> >
> > Now, I'm going to port the wayland onto freescale iMX6 board. It supports
> > Linux/WinCE/Android OS. I want to use the Linux OS "without" DRM support.
> > So, it going to be difficult to use the compositor-drm.
> > But, freescale offers the GLES2 implementation. So, I wonder I might
> > need the same GLES2 >> framebuffer back-end.
> >
> 
> Freescale iMX6 driver releases do show that they now support drm in their
> kernel. You may want to try that.
> But as such writing a GLES2 over FB backend will work, but with restricted
> features as listed in the
> below mail chain. With much of the work now abstracted by gles2-renderer
> (gl-renderer as its called now) , it must be simple enough to write the
> back-end.
> 
> 
> > Could you give me some help?
> > Anything is welcome.
> >
> > This will be of some help <
> http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-devel/2012-September/005324.html

The Raspberry Pi backend is in upstream Weston now, too, for reference
if the DRM backend is not suitable for some reason. I would advice not
to look at the Android backend as it is inferior.


Thanks,
pq