Re: OpenGL in USB Display Devices under wayland

2012-06-24 Thread Sannu K
On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 12:59 PM, Pekka Paalanen wrote: > On Sat, 23 Jun 2012 22:21:28 +0530 > Sannu K wrote: > > > On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 2:04 AM, Casey Dahlin > wrote: > > > > > On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 10:29:04PM +0300, Pekka Paalanen wrote: > > > > The trick is in the kernel DRM, which has t

Re: OpenGL in USB Display Devices under wayland

2012-06-24 Thread Pekka Paalanen
On Sat, 23 Jun 2012 22:21:28 +0530 Sannu K wrote: > On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 2:04 AM, Casey Dahlin wrote: > > > On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 10:29:04PM +0300, Pekka Paalanen wrote: > > > The trick is in the kernel DRM, which has to be able to deal with the > > > buffer and actually push it to the USB

Re: OpenGL in USB Display Devices under wayland

2012-06-23 Thread Sannu K
On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 2:04 AM, Casey Dahlin wrote: > On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 10:29:04PM +0300, Pekka Paalanen wrote: > > The trick is in the kernel DRM, which has to be able to deal with the > > buffer and actually push it to the USB device. This may require special > > allocation flags or some

Re: OpenGL in USB Display Devices under wayland

2012-06-22 Thread Casey Dahlin
On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 10:29:04PM +0300, Pekka Paalanen wrote: > The trick is in the kernel DRM, which has to be able to deal with the > buffer and actually push it to the USB device. This may require special > allocation flags or somehow using the dmabuf infrastructure to allocate > the buffer, w

Re: OpenGL in USB Display Devices under wayland

2012-06-22 Thread Pekka Paalanen
On Fri, 22 Jun 2012 14:08:16 -0400 rektide wrote: > On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 01:14:00PM -0400, Casey Dahlin wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 09:40:43PM +0530, Sannu K wrote: > > > After seeing the changes made in X server for offloading hardware > > > acceleration for USB display devices (displa

Re: OpenGL in USB Display Devices under wayland

2012-06-22 Thread Casey Dahlin
On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 02:08:16PM -0400, rektide wrote: > How about this question: might Weston be adaptable to serve this use case? > What would be the > major changes to Weston to do this? What other subsystems would have to > change? > Right now wayland doesn't have a protocol to export muc

Re: OpenGL in USB Display Devices under wayland

2012-06-22 Thread rektide
On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 01:14:00PM -0400, Casey Dahlin wrote: > On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 09:40:43PM +0530, Sannu K wrote: > > After seeing the changes made in X server for offloading hardware > > acceleration for USB display devices (displaylink and others), I am curious > > to know about how Waylan

Re: OpenGL in USB Display Devices under wayland

2012-06-22 Thread Casey Dahlin
On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 09:40:43PM +0530, Sannu K wrote: > After seeing the changes made in X server for offloading hardware > acceleration for USB display devices (displaylink and others), I am curious > to know about how Wayland takes care (if at all it does) of offloading > hardware acceleration

OpenGL in USB Display Devices under wayland

2012-06-22 Thread Sannu K
Hi, Intro: USB display devices are dumb framebuffer devices that can drive a CRTC which is connected to the system through USB. These devices can be treated as just USB to VGA (DVI or HDMI) converters. They have some sort of compression (Devices from displaylink is one of them which uses RLE compr