[PATCH weston 00/18] Raspberry Pi: a new renderer and demos

[Pekka Paalanen]

On Wed, 22 May 2013 18:03:03 +0300
ppaalanen at gmail.com wrote:

> From: Pekka Paalanen <pekka.paalanen at collabora.co.uk>
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> this patch series consists of several independent features, which all come
> together in demonstrating the capabilities of Raspberry Pi for running a
> desktop.
> 
> We add a new rpi-renderer, that replaces the gl-renderer + weston_planes
> on RPi. Since it is not as flexible as the gl-renderer, we add some
> capability bits to disable incompatible features in Weston.
> 
> Weston-desktop-shell gets new features. The major new feature is
> "exposay", a window overview mode with animated transitions. Another new
> feature is optional keyboard-focus animation, which dims unfocused
> surfaces. Smaller enhancements include a new wallpaper scaling mode, and
> ensuring weston-desktop-shell has finished starting up before the
> compositor fades in.
> 
> Then there are various smaller fixes and enhancements.
> 
> This work is joint effort of the Raspberry Pi foundation and Collabora. I
> will later (tomorrow) reply with an email with links to all the related
> announcements and blog posts. More details behind those links, and the
> individual commits.
> 
> Beware of the rough edges, there are some bugs we didn't have time to fix
> yet. Most of them need a little effort to discover, though, that's why we
> didn't see them earlier. ;-)
> 
> This series is also available as a branch:
> 
> git://git.collabora.co.uk/git/user/pq/weston.git raspberrypi-dispmanx
> http://cgit.collabora.com/git/user/pq/weston.git/log/?h=raspberrypi-dispmanx
> 
> There is also a patch for the RPi building guide on the Wayland website.

Hi all,

the Raspberry Pi specific commits are merged upstream, and the demo
candy patches are still waiting for review. I have a WIP branch (i.e.
throw-away) with the pending patches at:
http://cgit.collabora.com/git/user/pq/weston.git/log/?h=raspberrypi-dispmanx-wip

Now that we finally got all the PR out, here's the collection of links
to announcements etc.

Raspberry Pi Foundation News, "Wayland preview"
http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/4053

Daniel Stone's blog, "Weston on Raspberry Pi", answers "why?"
http://fooishbar.org/tell-me-about/wayland-on-raspberry-pi/

My blog, "Weston on Raspberry Pi Accelerated", answers "how?"
http://ppaalanen.blogspot.fi/2013/05/weston-on-raspberry-pi-accelerated.html

Collabora's press release
http://www.collabora.com/press/2013/05/collabora-brings-wayland-and-x11-graphics-performance-to-raspberry-pi.html

Collabora's Raspberry Pi case study, with the video
http://www.collabora.com/services/case-studies/raspberrypi

Collabora's Wayland promotion
http://www.collabora.com/projects/graphics/

Pre-built Raspbian packages
http://raspberrypi.collabora.com/


Thanks,
pq