[PATCH xserver] Xmir DDX

[Robert Ancell]

On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 4:47 PM Adam Jackson <ajax at nwnk.net> wrote:

> On Fri, 2016-04-29 at 11:11 +0200, Robert Ancell wrote:
> > This is currently used in Ubuntu to allow X applications and sessions to
> run in
> > newer versions of Unity 8. For example, this allows applications like
> GIMP to
> > run on mobile devices like the Bq Aquaris M10 [2] (currently shipping).
> >
> > The proposed patch allows software based rendering only. The XMir used
> in Ubuntu
> > contains more changes (developed on Launchpad [3]) that are unlikely to
> be of
> > sufficient quality for proposal upstream. We will propose those changes
> when
> > they are ready.
>
> Your footnotes seem to have gone missing.
>

Not sure what you mean by footnotes?


> I'm not a huge fan of seeing the cvt code duplicated yet again. Seems
> like we should just add this to RANDR already. Also not a huge fan of
> some of the extremely long lines, but maybe I'm just stuck in an 80
> column mindset.
>

Yeah, would love to drop the duplication. Very happy to integrate if
someone makes it available!
I'm happy to refactor the long lines if that fits in better with the
exisitng X code.


>
> Can you point me in the direction of what provides the new pkgconfig
> modules mentioned? If this is going to land I'm going to want to be
> able to build it.
>

Do you mean mirclient and mir-client-platform-mesa? These are both provided
by Mir which is developed on Launchpad [1] with code in bzr and tarballs
available for download.

[1] https://launchpad.net/mir

Thanks,
--Robert
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