On Sun, 05 Feb 2017 05:34:39 +0000, bob prohaska wrote:

> A. Dumas  wrote:
>> On 04/02/2017 18:24, Rob Morley wrote:
>>> I thought it was because it's based on proprietary design information,
>>> so the specification couldn't be released for anyone outside Broadcom
>>> to work on it.
>>
>> That's the open source video driver. I think OP asked about Wayland.
>>
>>
> Truth be told I'm not entirely sure what I was asking about. Only that
> the "experimental GL driver" seemed to speed up the Neverball demo in
> fairly impressive fashion and that nothing further seemed to be
> happening.
>
> There was some publicity about Broadcom releasing the the VC4 manual as
> an aid to developing a GPU-based video driver, which I _thought_
> was the accelerated GL driver. The link is here:
> https://docs.broadcom.com/docs-and-downloads/docs/support/videocore/
VideoCoreIV-AG100-R.pdf
>
> It's quite unclear to me just how much help such a document might be:
> Likely not much to a device driver writer, but maybe necessary to
> someone writing a code generator for a compiler.
>
> The role of Wayland in the enterprise is rather unclear.
>
IIRC Wayland is a new X-server implementation that replaces the older X11
Xserver. Xservers can appear to be back to front at first glance. They
own screen, mouse and keyboard and provide access to them as services to
their client programs.


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