Wayland on Embedded

[Henius Dong]

Hi Abhijit

-----Original Message-----
From: Abhijit Potnis
Sent: 2012/11/20 15:04

> Hello Henius,
>
>
> On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 3:34 PM, Henius Dong <donglw at pset.suntec.net
> <mailto: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.
Thanks for your information. I would confirm with Freescale.

>
>     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>
I've checked this mail chain. The "restricted features" you mentioned is 
I won't able to run GL client by using GLES2 over FB backend, right? But 
since iMX6 has the DRM support, using DRM backend may be easier.

>
>     Thank you very much.
>
>     Best Regards
>     Henius Dong
>
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> Regards,
> Abhijit Potnis
>