[webkit-dev] Help regarding rendering in webkit2 port of haiku

[Noam Rosenthal]

~ (reposting from webkit email)

Hello!
I suggest starting by learning one of the other ports - like GTK - how the
whole flow works from the windowing system to WebCore to the graphics
system. Read the code, run it in debug mode and put breakpoints, get those
aha moments of how it all works together.

Note that coordinated graphics is not automatically the right choice for
every port - it was created for mobile windowing systems where window
context-switching was expensive and single-context hardware acceleration
was cheap. If you're looking for a guide check out
https://trac.webkit.org/wiki/CoordinatedGraphicsSystem, hopefully it's
still somewhat valid. I would start there by understanding the flow and how
it fits with the Haiku architecture, seems like you've started doing that
already. you're on the right track there.

btw I might be able to help out (no promises), I haven't touched WebKit
code in a few years but I was responsible for TextureMapper and the
coordinated graphics system and I like bizarre projects (a Haiku port
sounds like one). Let's see how it goes :)


On Mon, Jun 10, 2019 at 9:05 AM Rajagopalan Gangadharan <
g.raju2000 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello everybody,
>
> A quick look back on what we have done so far. We are trying to port
> webkit2 to haiku and we have a working IPC with us. So the next step i
> presume is to be rendering.
>
> I did few amount of research and have few basic ideas. Correct me if I am
> wrong.
>
> 1) The rendering takes place in webprocess over a shared bitmap which is
> then rendered onto the client area in UIProcess.
>
> 2) Webkit uses coordinated graphics system which relies on OPENGL.
>
> So we look forward to get the rendering step done or is there anything we
> should take care in between? .
> Our platform doesnt have hardware accelerated OpenGL yet we have software
> implementation vesa which we tend not to use.
> We have a working texture mapper and compositing coordinator from our
> webkit legacy port. I think this makes up the entire compositing
> coordinator.
>
> So it would be of great help if any tells how could we proceed like what
> should be our next move. Perhaps a small guide would be better.
>
> Thank you
>
> Regards
> G.Rajagopalan
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