Student project

[Pekka Paalanen]

On Fri, 17 Feb 2017 19:06:09 +0100
Sergi Granell <xerpi.g.12 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi everyone!
> 
> My name is Sergi Granell and I am a last year student at the
> Facultat d'Informàtica de Barcelona in the Universitat Politècnica de
> Catalunya [1].
> As this is my last semester there, I have to do my end of degree
> project.
> I have been interested in Wayland for a long time, and also following
> this mailing list. In fact, I sent a few (but simple) patches last
> year.
> Since I have wanted to contribute to Wayland (or Weston) for a long
> time, but being busy with the university kept me from doing it, I have
> decided that now it would be a good time to do it: as my end of degree
> project.
> 
> I have decided that I'd like to improve the atomic mode-setting and
> hardware planes usage in Weston, since that could improve the user
> experience and reduce the power consumption and memory bandwidth needed
> compared to rendering using OpenGL ES for example.
> 
> The project starts right now and it lasts until June approximately, so
> I will try to do my best! Also I am always wandering around the IRC
> channel, so expect me to be somewhat active there too :)
> 
> Anyways, let me know if you have any questions, comments or ideas.
> 
> [1] http://www.fib.upc.edu

Hi,

Welcome!

Do you yet have some concrete plans or features to tackle?

I would assume you would be helping Daniel get the atomic modesetting
landed in the first place. Might your work include automated DRM
testing or something like that, perhaps?

By that I mean using e.g. the display hardware CRC readback or image
readback to verify the output of the DRM-backend, or perhaps using
something like Google's Chamelium[1] to do the same at frame accuracy
to detect glitches, timing issues, and so on?

Or maybe something in the direction of drm hwcomposer[2]?

I don't recall what else there could be, so I will be very interested in
hearing about your plans.


[1] https://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/testing/chamelium
[2] https://www.x.org/wiki/Events/XDC2016/Program/paul_reizner_drm_hwcomposer/


Thanks,
pq
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