[Help]Question about graphics architecture for weson/wayland

Yang Andy williamyang13 at hotmail.com
Mon Aug 18 23:59:22 PDT 2014


Hi Pekka

Thank you very much for your reply.

> If you have a DRM kernel driver supporting KMS, use Weston's drm-backend
> but pass --use-pixman on the command line.

DRM kernel driver is for display device? Not for GPU?

In other words,i can use drm-backend even though i have no GPU device.

Andy
> Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2014 09:44:14 +0300
> From: ppaalanen at gmail.com
> To: williamyang13 at hotmail.com
> CC: raster at rasterman.com; wayland-devel at lists.freedesktop.org
> Subject: Re: [Help]Question about graphics architecture for weson/wayland
> 
> On Tue, 19 Aug 2014 02:20:58 +0000
> Yang Andy <williamyang13 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > My senario is that my target device do not support hardware
> > accelerate.(do not use gpu) But i have to use EFL to develop
> > application in wayland/weston platform.
> > 
> > In order to achieve my task,how do i setup weston?
> 
> Oh, so this was your real question.
> 
> If you have a DRM kernel driver supporting KMS, use Weston's drm-backend
> but pass --use-pixman on the command line.
> 
> If you do not have a DRM driver, but you do have /dev/fb0, use Weston's
> fbdev-backend.
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> pq
 		 	   		  
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