Hi, On 28 November 2013 10:04, Pekka Paalanen <ppaala...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, 28 Nov 2013 10:24:33 +0100 > Benjamin Gaignard <benjamin.gaign...@linaro.org> wrote: >> From my point of view wl_drm isn't link to Mesa, it is only about >> exchange buffers by using a file descriptor and, for example, doesn't >> rely on EGL. >> >> I understand that other graphic stacks could have defined their own >> way to for zero-copy (and so other protocols). >> I don't aim to make gstreamer wayland sink works for all of them but >> at least with wl_drm protocol which is quite generic. >> >> Since dmabuf has been adopted in kernel we have the opportunity to >> rationalize also some code in userland and for that we need a common >> wayland protocol. >> Move wl_drm into wayland-core make it more easily accessible for all >> software even for those who don't use Mesa. > > if you aim particularly for dma-buf, then I would propose making a new > Wayland protocol extension mesa_dma_buf or gbm_dma_buf or whatever name > is appropriate, and drop all the unneeded parts compared to wl_drm.
Given that dmabuf doesn't specify format codes or anything like that, you can't make it properly generic. My original thought was to make a generic wl_dmabuf interface, but given the format code issue, it seemed prudent to leave it as a part of wl_drm for now. Cheers, Daniel _______________________________________________ mesa-dev mailing list mesa-dev@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/mesa-dev
