Weston on Raspberry Pi Accelerated

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The article on the reasons for doing this work is also very interesting: http://fooishbar.org/tell-me-about/wayland-on-raspberry-pi/

Yes, very interesting. Reminded of http://prog21.dadgum.com/173.html

Are there any precompiled binaries for this? The Raspberry PI build instructions for Weston look involved - http://wayland.freedesktop.org/raspberrypi.html

http://raspberrypi.collabora.com/ though Daniel Stone is intending to update that (hopefully soon) so the .debs include a weston-launch script that does the necessary XDG_RUNTIME_DIR setting and misc setup for a simple easy to run demo.

Very cool. There seems to be a lot of very detailed posts from the Wayland/Weston developers recently, is this coincident with the Mir (for want of a better expression) fork?

Still, the synchronization and swapping between GLES and using hardware overlays is a problem that has been solved for sometime on Android. Unfortunately this magic maybe hidden in a proprietary framebuffer Android HAL or more recently the platforms hardware composer HAL.

This is pretty actionable stuff. I really like the discussion around the trade-offs. So an interesting question is on my Zynq-7000 Zedboard what sort of Framebuffer would you design to be the "ideal" Wayland or Mir target?

This is very good news although now I feel I've just wasted a day speeding up a home-grown software video player for the Pi.

Really awesome work, had my hopes up for this and the video does not disappoint!

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