thing that
might be "thrown away" in the long term would be the Wayland-specific
parts. Barring any further information, that seems to be the best path
forward at the moment, but if there is any movement on the nVidia front
or on the headless hardware-accelerated remote display backend front,
On 12/15/16 3:01 AM, Pekka Paalanen wrote:
> The current RDP-backed is written to set up and use only the Pixman
> renderer. Pixman renderer is a software renderer, and will not
> initialize EGL in the compositor. Therefore no support for hardware
> accelerated OpenGL gets advertised to clients, an
On 12/19/16 2:48 AM, Pekka Paalanen wrote:
> Hmm, indeed, maybe it would be possible if you are imposing your own
> EGL middle-man library between the application and the real EGL library.
>
> That's definitely a idea to look into. I cannot say off-hand why it
> would not work, so maybe it can wor
On 12/16/16 3:06 AM, Pekka Paalanen wrote:
> I should probably tell a little more, because what I explained above is
> a simplification due to using a single path for all buffer types.
> ...
Thanks again. This is all very new to me, and I guess I don't fully
understand where these buffer types wo
On 12/15/16 3:01 AM, Pekka Paalanen wrote:
> I assure you, this is a limitation of the RDP-backend itself. Nothing
> outside of Weston creates this restriction.
>
> The current RDP-backed is written to set up and use only the Pixman
> renderer. Pixman renderer is a software renderer, and will not
On 12/14/16 8:52 PM, Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote:
> weston is not the only wayland compositor. is the the sample/test compositor.
> wayalnd does not mean sticking to just what weston does.
>
> i suspect weston's rdp back-end forces a sw gl stack because it's easier to be
> driver agnost
On 12/14/16 3:27 AM, Pekka Paalanen wrote:
> could you be more specific on what you mean by "server-side", please?
> Are you referring to the machine where the X server runs, or the
> machine that is remote from a user perspective where the app runs?
Few people use remote X anymore in my industry,
age-based, perhaps that is no
longer a limitation.
Any advice is greatly appreciated. Thanks for your time.
DRC
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