Bug 56495

Summary:	Xwayland needs an accelerated hardware independant ddx
Product:	Wayland	Reporter:	n3rdopolis <bluescreen_avenger>
Component:	weston	Assignee:	Wayland bug list <wayland-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	Other
OS:	All
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Description n3rdopolis 2012-10-28 14:32:07 UTC

This has been mentioned a few times on the Wayland IRC, so I feel it's apropriate to open a bug report for this.

Currently, In order to use Xwayland, you either need a slightly modified ddx for your video card, or to use the wlshm "driver"

However what probably would be better for xwayland is a fake ddx similar to wlshm, ( most likely using egl?), so that xwayland can be hardware accelerated, without maintaining X drivers, or requiring the xwayland server to run as root.

Comment 1 Kristian Høgsberg 2013-10-27 04:39:01 UTC

Axel did this: https://github.com/axeldavy/xf86-video-wlglamor.git

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