[PATCH] wayland: Add an extension to create wl_buffers from EGLImages

[Neil Roberts]

Is this problem specific to the extension or is it a general problem?
Would there not be the same issue if the session compositor wasn't using
the extension but was creating textures from the client surfaces
instead? Presumably if cards A and B don't share a tiling mode then it
won't be possible for card B to make a texture out of buffers created on
card A either.

My assumption was that if you have successfully created an EGLImage out
of the client's surface then it is a valid buffer for that EGL context.
Perhaps this situation should be detected in eglCreateImage rather than
in eglCreateWaylandBufferFromImage.

I apologise in advance if I've misunderstood the problem.

Regards,
- Neil

Axel Davy <axel.davy at ens.fr> writes:

> I think there is a problem with tiling handling in your patch.
>
> Thinks of a session compositor running on an other graphic card for example.
>
>
> Main compositor: card A
> session compositor: card B. buffer is shared between A and B and when
> creating it, tiling was disabled (because A and B share no tiling mode)
> clients in the session compositor: card B. buffer is created on B, when
> creating it, tiling was enabled.
>
> In this configuration, your function should fail or do a copy (because A
> won't recognize the tiling mode of B)
>
> Axel Davy
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