On Tuesday 2012-10-23 01:26, Kristian Høgsberg wrote: >Wayland and Weston 1.0.0 have been released! > >Thanks and congrats to everybody involved for making this happen. >We're entering a new, exciting and somewhat scary phase for Wayland. >As of this 1.0.0 release, we're changing the development model and >committing to the the protocol and client side API we have now. > >As I've said before, 1.0 doesn't mean we're done or that the protocol >can't move forward. What it means, is that we're confident that the >protocol we have now covers the basic features and that we can build >whatever new functionality we need with and on top of 1.0.
A few folks around me, and myself included, have pondered... It would seem that wayland and its possible compositors all require 3D support, which may require, if no accelerating GPU is installed, the use of software rendering. This however, it is feared, would unnecessarily consume computational power when doing purely "2D workloads", such as libreoffice - xterms - and simple web page browsing, especially in a scenario-idea I was shown that consists of a workstation with one graphic chip and a DisplayLink multiplexer, intended for use in a 4-people multi-seat setup. That also prompted me to think about server consoles; these often have some lo-power chip, popular example is (last decade's) ATI Rage XL, the Intel GMA in Netbooks and NanoITX boards, and so on. I would love to hear your thoughts about this. _______________________________________________ wayland-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/wayland-devel
