[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 197944] [GTK] Use WPEBackend-fdo for accelerating compositing in Wayland instead of the nested compositor
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Wed May 22 01:01:27 PDT 2019
https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=197944
--- Comment #10 from Adrian Perez <aperez at igalia.com> ---
(In reply to Carlos Garcia Campos from comment #9)
> (In reply to Adrian Perez from comment #8)
> > (In reply to Michael Catanzaro from comment #3)
> >
> > > How long will we keep WaylandCompositor around as a fallback path?
> > >
> > > It's only needed for accelerated rendering, right? So we don't really need
> > > to keep it. We could fallback to software rendering if libwpe is unavailable.
> >
> > While Wayland is now available in FreeBSD (using a similar stack, with
> > libdrm + Mesa), AFAIU there is no support for DMA-BUF there because that
> > is Linux-specific. We may want to keep the nested compositor support for
> > systems where Wayland runs but are not Linux-based. I have no idea what
> > the situation is for the other BSDs, though.
>
> WPEBackend-fdo works without linux dmabuf too, using the wayland resources
> the same way we do in our nested compositor.
Great. No further objections, your honor!
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