We have agreed to use the major as the ABI-version, so talk about major
to avoid confusion.
Remove unncessary or incorrect wording related to breaking ABI on minor
bumps.
Explain a little about the weston vs. libweston version numbers.
v2:
- Add a paragraph about ABI breaks between alpha and .0 releases.
- clarify pre-release definition
- Add two paragraphs about libweston versions differing from weston
version and how to use pkg-config properly.
Signed-off-by: Pekka Paalanen <pekka.paalanen@collabora.co.uk>
Reviewed-by: Quentin Glidic <sardemff7+git@sardemff7.net>
Reviewed-by: Jonas Ådahl <jadahl@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Emil Velikov <emil.velikov@collabora.com>
v2: Elaborate what is meant with "major ABI versions" (Pekka).
Signed-off-by: Emil Velikov <emil.velikov@collabora.com>
Reviewed-by: Pekka Paalanen <pekka.paalanen@collabora.co.uk> (v1)
v2: Rewrap, add a couple of missing words (Pekka).
v3: Use alternative wording (Yong).
Signed-off-by: Emil Velikov <emil.velikov@collabora.com>
Reviewed-by: Pekka Paalanen <pekka.paalanen@collabora.co.uk>
This is the start of separating weston-the-compositor source files from
libweston source files.
This is moving all the files related to the 'weston' binary. Also the
CMS and systemd plugins are moved.
xwayland plugin is not moved, because it will be turned into a
libweston feature.
To avoid breaking the build, #includes for weston.h are fixed to use
compositor/weston.h. This serves as a reminder that such files may need
further attention: moving to the right directory, or maybe using the
proper -I flags instead.
v2: Move also screen-share.c, and add a note about weston-launch.
Signed-off-by: Pekka Paalanen <pekka.paalanen@collabora.co.uk>
Reviewed-by: Yong Bakos <ybakos@humanoriented.com>
Acked-by: Daniel Stone <daniels@collabora.com>
Reviewed-by: Quentin Glidic <sardemff7+git@sardemff7.net>
Tested-by: Quentin Glidic <sardemff7+git@sardemff7.net>
Tested-by: Benoit Gschwind <gschwind@gnu-log.net>
Acked-by: Benoit Gschwind <gschwind@gnu-log.net>
[Pekka: rebased]
This patch completely removes the Raspberry Pi backend and the renderer.
The backend and the renderer were written to use the proprietary
DispmanX API available only on the Raspberry Pi, to demonstrate what the
tiny computer is capable of graphics wise. They were also used to
demonstrate how Wayland and Weston in particular could leverage hardware
compositing capabilities that are not OpenGL. The backend was first
added in e8de35c922, in 2012.
Since then, the major point has been proven. Over time, support for the
rpi-backend diminished, it started to deteriorate and hinder Weston
development. On May 11, I tried to ask if anyone actually cared about
the rpi-backend, but did not get any votes for keeping it:
https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-devel/2016-May/028764.html
The rpi-backend is a good example of how using an API that is only
available for specific hardware, even more so as it is only available
with a proprietary driver stack, is not maintainable in the long run.
Most developers working on Weston either just cannot, or cannot bother
to test things also on the RPi. Breakage creeps in without anyone
noticing. If someone actually notices it, fixing it will require a very
specific environment to be able to test. Also the quality of the
proprietary implementation fluctuated. There are reports that RPi
firmware updates randomly broke Weston, and that nowadays it is very
hard to find a RPi firmware version that you could expect to work with
Weston if Weston itself was not broken. We are not even sure what is
broken nowadays.
This removal does not leave Raspberry Pi users cold (for long), though.
There is serious work going on in implementing a FOSS driver stack for
Raspberry Pi, including modern kernel DRM drivers and Mesa drivers. It
might not be fully there yet, but the plan is to be able to use the
standard DRM-backend of Weston on the RPis. See:
http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/VC4/
The rpi-backend had its moments. Now, it needs to go. Good riddance!
Signed-off-by: Pekka Paalanen <pekka.paalanen@collabora.co.uk>
Reviewed-by: Derek Foreman <derekf@osg.samsung.com>
Acked-by: Bryce Harrington <bryce@osg.samsung.com>
Acked-by: Jonas Ådahl <jadahl@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Daniel Stone <daniels@collabora.com>
What is libweston and where do we intend to go with it.
Signed-off-by: Pekka Paalanen <pekka.paalanen@collabora.co.uk>
Reviewed-by: Bryce Harrington <bryce@osg.samsung.com>
Acked-by: Giulio Camuffo <giuliocamuffo@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Daniel Stone <daniels@collabora.com>
Acked-by: Jon A. Cruz <jonc@osg.samsung.com>
Replace aclocal; autoconf invocation in Wayland build instructions with
an up-to-date ./autogen.sh invocation.
Signed-off-by: Nikolai Kondrashov <spbnick@gmail.com>
Pekka Paalanen
Emil Velikov
Bryce Harrington
Jon A. Cruz
Bryce W. Harrington
Kristian Høgsberg
Peter Hutterer
Nikolai Kondrashov
Kristian Høgsberg