From e0f5cc25740aa39b203eb6fbfc44b73f1012e290 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Kristian=20H=C3=B8gsberg?= Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 22:52:06 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Minor spec edits --- spec/main.tex | 19 +++++++++++-------- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/spec/main.tex b/spec/main.tex index 6d5ee2cc..330d6727 100644 --- a/spec/main.tex +++ b/spec/main.tex @@ -20,18 +20,21 @@ \subsection{Replacing X11} -Over the last 10 years, a lot of functionality have slowly moved out -of the X server and into libraries or kernel drivers. It started with -freetype and fontconfig providing an alternative to the core X fonts -and direct rendering OpenGL as a graphics driver in a client side -library. Then cairo came along and provided a modern 2D rendering -library independent of X and compositing managers took over control of -the rendering of the desktop. Recently with GEM and KMS in the Linux +Over time, a lot of functionality have slowly moved out of the X +server and into client-side libraries or kernel drivers. One of the +first components to move out was font rendering, with freetype and +fontconfig providing an alternative to the core X fonts. Direct +rendering OpenGL as a graphics driver in a client side library. Then +cairo came along and provided a modern 2D rendering library +independent of X and compositing managers took over control of the +rendering of the desktop. Recently with GEM and KMS in the Linux kernel, we can do modesetting outside X and schedule several direct rendering clients. The end result is a highly modular graphics stack. +\subsection{Make the compositing manager the display server} + Wayland is a new display server building on top of all those -components. We’re trying to distill out the functionality in the X +components. We are trying to distill out the functionality in the X server that is still used by the modern Linux desktop. This turns out to be not a whole lot. Applications can allocate their own off-screen buffers and render their window contents by themselves. In the end,