[wpe-webkit] Fate of wpebackend-rd and WpeLauncher

[Munez Bn]

On Mon, Sep 17, 2018 at 3:36 PM Vanhauwaert Wouter <
W.Vanhauwaert at televic.com> wrote:

> >       > wpebackend-fdo is added (doesn't have much idea on this)
> >
> >       The idea for the FDO backend is that the backend does not “talk”
> > directly to
> >       the display. Instead, it tries to be generic and provides a
> mechanism
> > to
> >       notify the launcher when a frame has been rendered. Then the
> > launcher can
> >       use the method it prefers to display the frames. In theory it
> should be
> >       possible to replace many backends with the FDO one, but not much
> > has been
> >       done on that front.
> >
> >
> >
> > Sorry , I couldnt get it.  Is FDO a replacement for rdk backend or
> supplement.
> > And also what if i don't want to use wayland. For example RPI uses
> > Dispmanx. Can I use FDO + Dispmanx ?
> > This was possible with wpebackend-rdk where I could use RPI port without
> > wayland. I also saw there are some BCM ports which uses nexus instead of
> > wayland.
> >
> >
>
> Hello,
> I also want to elaborate a bit on the wpebackend-rdk story. I also don't
> know what the future will be or what the intentions here are.
> A few weeks ago, I already made a pull request to adapt wpebackend-rdk to
> the new libwpe. It is able to run fine together, but it seemed nobody
> replied to my pull-request, and also it was not very clear what to use now,
> so I closed it again...
> https://github.com/WebPlatformForEmbedded/WPEBackend-rdk/pull/26
> I also don't use wayland, but using the egl vivante-backend (imx6)
> directly (just as bcm/rpi). It looks like all efforts go to wpebackend-fdo
> now?
>


Great. So you have tried  libwpe + Wpebackend-rdk ( imx6) . Any code
changes was required ?  And which launcher did you use ? COG or the
WpeLauncher ? I would like to try it on  RPI 3.
Anyway lets wait for someone to confim on  our questions.
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