David, with this message form Daniel we end this thread. You're welcome to participate, but before you send emails about the sky falling, you need to educate yourself a bit more on how things work in Wayland.
Kristian On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 3:11 PM, Daniel Stone <dan...@fooishbar.org> wrote: > Hi, > > On 27 February 2012 20:06, David Jackson <djackson...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 3:03 PM, David Jackson <djackson...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >>> So, I will be able to display wayland session, or did you mean individual >>> wayland apps, onto an X server, over an X protocol connection, to a standard >>> X server? If it is an entire wayland session tht can be displayed over X >>> protocol to a standard X server, that would be sufficient, as long as the >>> wayland session can be displayed only to the X server and does not have to >>> be displayed to real hardware at the same time. >> >> >> As an example, if I wanted to display an wayland session to an Xvnc server >> for instance, or an Xfree86 server running on another computer. its >> possible, right? >> >> Thanks for your help. > > Yes, that's completely correct. You can also have an X session hosted > inside your Wayland session hosted inside your X session which accepts > remote connections, or any combination you can come up with. > > Another thing I should add to the list is that the graphics rendering > is completely unchanged from X11. The DRI (mid-late 1990s) and DRI2 > (mid-late 2000s) extensions are the model for Wayland's rendering; if > you have an X app today, it will make GL calls which will go through > the kernel (which performs basic security/sanity checks) and be > processed directly by the graphics card. Once rendering is completed, > the client simply asks the X server to display the completed buffer, > without ever having performed any actual rendering through GLX. In > fact, the server doesn't know the difference between a buffer which > the client has rendered to with hardware-accelerated GL, or which the > client has rendered to in software. > > So, in that sense, it's exactly the same as X11 has been since about 1997. > > Cheers, > Daniel > _______________________________________________ > wayland-devel mailing list > wayland-devel@lists.freedesktop.org > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/wayland-devel _______________________________________________ wayland-devel mailing list wayland-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/wayland-devel
