[PATCH wayland-web] update xserver and wayland DDX branches

Kristian Høgsberg hoegsberg at gmail.com
Tue Dec 17 00:27:54 PST 2013


On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 12:22:43PM +0200, ppaalanen at gmail.com wrote:
> From: Pekka Paalanen <pekka.paalanen at collabora.co.uk>
> 
> After the update, you get the latest xserver branch, which at the time
> of writing is based on xserver 1.14.99.
> 
> You also get the latest xf86-video-wayland, which was renamed from
> xf86-video-wlshm.
> 
> ---
> 
> Hi,
> 
> is there any reason to not have these up-to-date(?) branches in the
> website, rather than the old 1.12 xserver versions?

No, just lack of updating the web site.

> What is the intended Weston compatibility here? Are Weston 1.3.1 and
> master supposed to work with both xwayland and xwayland-1.12 branches
> of xserver?

The xwayland-1.12 branches are no longer maintained, but they should
still work.

> What about the various DDXes vs. xserver vs. weston?
> I assume there is no direct dependence between the video DDXes and
> Weston.

No dependencies, no.

Kristian

> ---
>  xserver.html | 10 ++++++----
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/xserver.html b/xserver.html
> index 899ba50..db99dd0 100644
> --- a/xserver.html
> +++ b/xserver.html
> @@ -44,13 +44,15 @@
>  
>  <h2>X.org</h2>
>  
> -<pre>    git clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver -b xwayland-1.12
> +<pre>    git clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver -b xwayland
>      cd xserver
>      ./autogen.sh --prefix=$WLD
>      make
>      make install
>      cd ..
>  </pre>
> +<p>This gets you the latest Wayland enabled X server, until the Wayland enablement
> +gets merged into the master branch.</p>
>  
>  <h2>DDX</h2>
>  
> @@ -58,7 +60,7 @@
>    The Device Dependent part of X.  Only one of these is necessary.
>    xf86-video-intel works with Intel open source video drivers.
>    xf86-video-ati works with AMD Radeon open source drivers.
> -  xf86-video-wlshm is implemented in software, so it works on all
> +  xf86-video-wayland is implemented in software, so it works on all
>    hardware, but is somewhat less complete.  xf86-video-nouveau works
>    with Nvidia / Nouveau.
>  </p>
> @@ -79,8 +81,8 @@
>      cd ..
>  </pre>
>  
> -<pre>    git clone git://people.freedesktop.org/~iksaif/xf86-video-wlshm
> -    cd xf86-video-wlshm
> +<pre>    git clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-wayland
> +    cd xf86-video-wayland
>      ./autogen.sh --prefix=$WLD
>      make
>      make install
> -- 
> 1.8.3.2
> 


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