On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 1:26 PM, Jason Kridner <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 6:08 PM, Robert Nelson <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 9:00 PM, Robert Nelson <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> So here's some random thoughts... Now that the wheezy images is out, >>> (We will still maintain it!) there were a few things i wished it had >>> working out of the box <cough> sgx </cough>. >>> >>> So on that note, I've been looking at what we have queued up for >>> Jessie (which should "freeze" november-ish, ship 7.0 6 months later >>> (lets say may 2015)). >>> >>> Some cool things, like a newer systemd (by default), qt 5.x, >>> wayland/weston, libhybris, gcc-4.9... Thus we 'might' just be able to >>> have sgx working by borrowing the Android bits.. >>> >>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybris_(software)#Features >>> >>> So today, I was messing with a Jessie rootfs build, trying to start >>> weston for the first time. yeah. We definitely have some work ahead >>> of us. >>> >>> Thoughts? I'm not promising anything right now, I might just end up >>> with more grey hairs.. >> >> weston: (running as root, in jessie) >> >> export XDG_RUNTIME_DIR="/tmp/wayland" >> mkdir -p "$XDG_RUNTIME_DIR" >> chmod 0700 "$XDG_RUNTIME_DIR" >> >> weston --backend=fbdev-backend.so >> >> or >> >> weston --backend=drm-backend.so --use-pixman >> >> (fbdev actually works better) > > How does the performance look? Wanting to encourage more people to poke on it?
It's actually very smooth in fbdev mode.. In in drm mode the screen gets crazy corrupted the harder you push the cpu. (on our v3.8.x kernel) > > For run-time HDMI resizing, we'll need to use DRM, no? Correct, we need drm mode for that. It's very minimal, it should be good platform for getting the 'current' sgx graphics binaries up and running.. But right now it's just a collection of notes to get it up. I figure in a week I'll have something for users to test. Regards, -- Robert Nelson http://www.rcn-ee.com/ -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
