HDR support in Wayland/Weston

[Pekka Paalanen]

On Tue, 15 Jan 2019 13:19:00 +0100
Niels Ole Salscheider <niels_ole at salscheider-online.de> wrote:

> Am Dienstag, 15. Januar 2019, 10:30:14 CET schrieb Pekka Paalanen:

> > Yes and no. Yes, we do and should let clients know what kind of outputs
> > their contents will be shown on. However, we will in any case need the
> > compositor to be able to do the full and correct conversion from what
> > ever the client has submitted to what is correct for a specific output,
> > because nothing guarantees that those two would always match.
> > 
> > One wl_surface on multiple outputs is an obvious case where one buffer
> > rendered by a client cannot match all the outputs it is shown on. The
> > other case is transitions between outputs, where we cannot have the
> > compositor wait for the client to re-draw with new color parameters.  
> 
> I think the last proposal of a color management protocol that we discussed 
> does that. It contains the device link profiles and it also allows the client 
> to query the profile of wl_outputs. With that, an application can display 
> accurate colors in nearly every situation, even on multiple screens 
> simultaneously. But still the compositor can do it's best to provide a good 
> output in some corner cases (e. g. when a new screen is activated and the 
> application has not rendered a new frame yet). Once the application reacts to 
> that change the output will be perfect again.

Sounds good! Sorry, I have not had a chance to refresh my memory on that
proposal, but I have high hopes that it will fit the HDR use case
nicely.


Thanks,
pq
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