XWayland / glamor on virtual machines

[Pekka Paalanen]

On Tue, 11 Nov 2014 15:52:53 +0100
Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom at vmware.com> wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> I was just starting out to try out XWayland in fedora 21 on top of
> gnome/wayland + vmwgfx.
> Currently no text is rendered, I'm not sure whether this is a glamor bug
> or a vmwgfx GL bug, but in any case, I suspect that using glamor for
> xrender acceleration will be very slow, and something we'd like to
> avoid. (The overhead of setting up accelerated state and allocating
> surfaces on vmwgfx will probably just be too high. But I'll need to get
> back with hard figures).
> 
> What we would like to do is to use something like SAA, that we are using
> in the vmware DDX today, basically we avoid accelerating xrender and
> just accelerate copy / composite stuff that originates from the 3D
> driver, and that already resides on the host, to avoid readbacks.
> 
> Does anybody have a strong feeling against us adding something like that
> to XWayland? As I see it, it could probably be implemented in various
> ways: It might be possible to reuse parts of Glamor for those operations
> where we need to accelerate. It should also be possible to implement
> something device-independent for gallium drivers on top of XA.
> 
> Any feedback appreciated.

Hi,

sorry, I know nothing about the Xwayland internal architecture. I'm not
even sure we have any way to configure Xwayland.

Can you autodetect everything at runtime, or would there be some
configuration involved?


Thanks,
pq