And on the other side, you have people like me who simply want to replace all video drivers with -modesetting, and all input drivers with libinput :)
On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 12:16 PM, Jamey Sharp <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Jun 04, 2014 at 09:07:22AM -0300, Laércio de Sousa wrote: > > Hello there! > > > > Some time ago I've wrotten asking for current status of xf86-video-nested > > development. I believe that, for a more robust single-card multiseat > setup > > with systemd-logind, a "real" Xorg server with some kind of nested video > > driver works better than Xephyr, since it still lacks proper input > > hotplugging, for example. > > > > On the other hand, xf86-video-nested have received no relevant > improvements > > for years, while Xephyr graphics support development is quite active. > > Wow, I can't believe that capstone project was almost three years ago > already. > > > So I'm thinking on rewriting xf86-video-nested driver based on latest > > Xephyr code. A more ambicious idea is to identify and move all video > > related code that could be useful for both Xephyr and nested driver to a > > shared library, namely "libephyr", and link them against it. We could > even > > rename xf86-video-nested to xf86-video-ephyr to reflect the new approach. > > > > I have absolutely no experience in writing video drivers for Xorg, but > I'm > > open for learning. Any feedback from you will be welcome. > > In my opinion, this would be great. One of my long-term goals is to have > only one X server implementation that anyone cares about, so being able > to replace both Xnest and Xephyr with Xorg+video-ephyr sounds good to > me. (And ideally, Xdmx would die in a fire.) > > If I had my way, you wouldn't need to build a shared library, because > you'd just replace Xephyr. But practicality suggests that your shared > library plan is a better migration strategy. > > I might suggest that you try hacking stuff into video-nested by > copy-paste before you try to figure out what shared library API you > need, though. It's much easier to make progress through incrementally > testable changes. > > I hope this helps. :-) > Jamey > > _______________________________________________ > [email protected]: X.Org development > Archives: http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel > Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel > -- Jasper
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