On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 07:53:03AM -0500, Derek Foreman wrote: > On 11/05/16 03:28 AM, Pekka Paalanen wrote: > > Hi, > > > > it has been a very long time since anything has happened with Weston's > > rpi-backend. This is the (only) Weston backend using a proprietary API, > > for Raspberry Pi it is the DispmanX API. > > > > I have heard reports that the rpi-backend has been a lot more not > > working than working, allegedly because of firmware issues. > > > > I haven't tried it myself for a long time, but sounds like I wouldn't > > have much luck in checking if the rpi-backend would still be ok. I > > might be able to dig up an ancient sd-card image where I originally > > developed the rpi-backend and test with that, but it seems useless if > > no-one else doing the same, and if it won't work on recent images > > anyway. > > > > Is anyone using Weston with the rpi-backend on a Raspberry Pi? > > Last time I tested it (on RPI2) it would run at 30fps when using > offscreen compositing or hard lock at about 4 windows when using direct > to screen compositing. Really unacceptable either way. :/ > > I also recall once you crossed a certain number of windows, the > offscreen compositing had visual anomalies. > > > Would you be upset if I deleted the whole rpi-backend right now? > > > > The rpi-backend is a dead end anyway, because the work in the kernel and > > Mesa to support the Raspberry Pi is progressing, and eventually you > > will be able to use the standard DRM-backend of Weston. But, I hear the > > DRM support is not quite completely there yet, so deleting the > > rpi-backend might cause a support gap in Weston releases. > > I think there's also another issue at play, my recollection is that the > video decoder blobs require the use of the openGL blob. > > I think 3D accel works with Mesa now (not sure if that's upstream, but > it's available), KMS works for setting modes, but if you want to use the > video decoders with the open stuff you're in trouble. :( > > > So, does anyone care about keeping up with Weston releases if you use > > it on a Raspberry Pi? > > > > If you do care, it does work for you, and you would like to keep on > > updating Weston, would you be able to test Weston patches from the > > mailing list? > > It would be really nice if someone would pick up this torch. Someone > saying "Hey, I actually use this and it does work" would go a long way > to keeping it in the repo. > > If we don't pull the plug for this release, we should at least flag it > deprecated in some way so people can't say they didn't see it coming?
I can make mention of it being on life support in the 1.11 notes. Then when 1.12 opens we could yank it, and have a full cycle to listen for complaints. Bryce _______________________________________________ wayland-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/wayland-devel
