Trying to reduce boot time for weston and logo from weston

[arunkrish20]

Hi Daniel,
Thanks for your inputs.
Yes will look into the dependencies.

And for the first screen rendering sequence would be like,

1. weston init.
2. Create a window from the user application process and render the content.
3. Layer manager needs to react to the window creation and the render order
configuration.
4. then only rendered content can be seen.

This is the sequence to render the first screen. from point 1 to point 4
taking ~500ms to 1 Sec.
So during this initialization period, when weston clears the first screen
with glclear, we wanted to display the static image as background. This
will solve our problem.

But as per your input if we revisit reducing the weston size and bringing
into initramfs that will be good actually.
if this works we won't bother about the above said blank issue.

If I get any stripped weston dependencies that will be good.

Thanks,
Arunkumar R

On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 3:32 PM Daniel Stone <daniel at fooishbar.org> wrote:

> Hi Arunkumar,
>
> On Mon, 27 Jul 2020 at 06:59, arunkrish20 <arunkrish20 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > We are working with the i.MX8 platform. We are working with weston and
> DRM backend. Below are the version details.
> >
> > NXP BSP Version: 4.14.98_2.0.0_ga
> > SC Firmware Version : 1.3.1
> > wayland version 1.16 am
> > weston- ivi - 5.0.0
>
> We are currently working our way towards releasing Weston 9.0.0, so
> this version is quite old.
>
> > Our requirement is to display the first screen in 2 Seconds.
> >
> > In the current environment we are able to see the first screen in the
> 6th seconds.
>
> Ouch, that's quite long.
>
> > We tried to boot the weston in initramfs. But due to size constraints we
> are not able to. Size comes around 65MB.
> >
> > Is there any possibility for reducing the size of weston?
>
> Weston itself with the DRM + GL backends only takes around 750kB once
> installed. I assume the 65MB comes from extra dependencies, but that
> is something you would have to investigate and configure in your Yocto
> build. Weston itself does not have many dependencies, and those
> dependencies are not large.
>
> > Weston taking 500ms to complete the initialization. Can we reduce this
> timing? e.g if we block unwanted device probing etc, any idea?
> >
> > In case if we use separate drm based rendering application for the first
> screen and switching to weston are seeing blank. Instead of clearing the
> weston screen buffer can we have a logo on first rendering. so that blank
> can be avoided between the first drm application to weston rendering.
>
> NXP has forked Weston and written their own backend, which is
> responsible for the initialisation (both the time and the blank
> screen). The default DRM backend is quite quick to come up and be
> responsive, and doesn't blank the screen. So both these issues are
> something you'd need to raise with NXP support, as they are due to
> NXP's changes to our code.
>
> Cheers,
> Daniel
>
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