Re: Fbdev-backend removal from Weston (Re: Upcoming release)

2019-01-23 Thread nerdopolis
On Wednesday, January 23, 2019 4:09:44 AM EST Pekka Paalanen wrote: > On Tue, 22 Jan 2019 22:46:02 -0500 > nerdopolis wrote: > > > On Tuesday, January 22, 2019 9:55:15 AM EST Pekka Paalanen wrote: > > > > > > > On Tue, 22 Jan 2019 10:17:32 +0200 > > > Pekka Paalanen wrote: > > > > > > > Hi,

Re: Fbdev-backend removal from Weston (Re: Upcoming release)

2019-01-23 Thread makepost
On Tue, 22 Jan 2019 10:17:32 +0200 Pekka Paalanen wrote: keep it around for some more, but the simple fact that some hardware exists that does not have a working DRM driver is not enough Fbdev worked out of the box on my Bay Trail system, but DRM kept freezing where only SysRq helped. It see

RE: Should Weston wait for client buffers to finish rendering?

2019-01-23 Thread Ucan, Emre (ADITG/ESB)
Hello Satyeshwar, nice to hear from you again (: short answer to your question: there is already implementation which is doing what you are asking: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/weston/merge_requests/32 Best regards Emre Ucan Engineering Software Base (ADITG/ESB) Tel. +49 5121 49 693

Should Weston wait for client buffers to finish rendering?

2019-01-23 Thread Singh, Satyeshwar
Hey guys, As you know, Weston doesn't wait for client buffers to finish rendering. That is typically left as an exercise for the kernel mode graphics driver. I am wondering if anyone knows why this policy decision was made? More importantly, is there any harm (or any side effect) that I am not t

Re: Fbdev-backend removal from Weston (Re: Upcoming release)

2019-01-23 Thread Adam Jackson
On Tue, 2019-01-22 at 22:46 -0500, nerdopolis wrote: > Well, TBH, It's just my quazi-distribution Live CD that I still maintain... > It falls back to the Framebuffer on systems (or seats) that don't have > Kernel Mode Setting. The number of users now probably is low... I think the biggest class

Re: [PATCH 2/3] client: Add wl_display_soft_flush()

2019-01-23 Thread Pekka Paalanen
On Fri, 7 Sep 2018 18:14:04 -0700 Lloyd Pique wrote: > This allows a client to occasionally flush the output buffers in the > middle of making a large number of calls which fill them. > > A soft flush differs from a normal flush in that the buffer is not > flushed if it is not full enough. The

Re: [PATCH 2/2] proto, server: Add internal server error message. (v2)

2019-01-23 Thread Pekka Paalanen
On Tue, 22 Jan 2019 15:42:17 +1300 Christopher James Halse Rogers wrote: > On 20 November 2018 8:02:50 pm NZDT, Christopher James Halse Rogers > wrote: > >Many languages such as C++ or Rust have an unwinding error-reporting > >mechanism. Code in these languages can (and must!) wrap request > >h

Re: [RFC] Weston GL shader compilation re-design

2019-01-23 Thread Harish Krupo
Hi Pekka, Thank you for the comments. I wIll start implementing the shader building. Pekka Paalanen writes: > On Wed, 23 Jan 2019 11:32:34 +0530 > Harish Krupo wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> This is in continuation to the discussion in the mail chain here [1]. We >> are currently working on enabling H

Re: [RFC] Weston GL shader compilation re-design

2019-01-23 Thread Pekka Paalanen
On Wed, 23 Jan 2019 11:32:34 +0530 Harish Krupo wrote: > Hi, > > This is in continuation to the discussion in the mail chain here [1]. We > are currently working on enabling HDR rendering support in the > gl-renderer. HDR support requires color space conversion (709->2020 or > other way around)

Re: Fbdev-backend removal from Weston (Re: Upcoming release)

2019-01-23 Thread Pekka Paalanen
On Tue, 22 Jan 2019 22:46:02 -0500 nerdopolis wrote: > On Tuesday, January 22, 2019 9:55:15 AM EST Pekka Paalanen wrote: > > > > On Tue, 22 Jan 2019 10:17:32 +0200 > > Pekka Paalanen wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > do you actually have a use case for that? It's ok if you do, we can > > >