Tracking of Frames, so that only one unique one can exist at a time
(gles does not allow multiple frames being rendered in parallel)
lead to very unfriendly lifetime-heavy code. A renderer is already
*unique*, just move the code there and add an error variant to catch
misuses.
- Cursor is not necessary anymore as rendering hardware vs software
cursors just depends on "where" you render the cursor.
- Format is replaced by drm-fourcc and more related to buffers and
therefor the allocator module anyway.
- GL/Glium are replaced by the renderer module.
- Software was unused and very small anyway and can be implemented
with the new renderer api.
- SwapBuffersError is (for now) just moved into the top-level backend module.
This pulls a lot of code from anvil/src/glium_drawer and replaces glium
as glium has too many assumptions about the backend.
(Mostly that a fixed framebuffer exists, see fix bullet point.)
Depending on how picky glium is, we could try to re-introduce glium support
later with a some workarounds, but for now this is actually more
straight-forward to support and test.
- Add a new GL renderer, that only depends on egl as an initialization platform.
In particular do not depend on a surface being available.
Renderers share some basic drawing functions and may bind objects to render upon.
E.g. surfaces or buffers, textures, etc for the gles2 renderer.
- Be explicit about extensions we require and use. Use some very very common ones
to make our lives easier (e.g. BGRA and unpack to read in manditory shm formats).
- Enable GL debug output
- Allow more flexible rendering (e.g. 3D compositors) by allowing user-provided
projection matrices. Also provide helper functions to allow easy-ish handling
of surface and output transformations.
- Add API for renderers to tell the wayland-frontend about supported buffer-types.
- Also incoperate code from anvil/src/shm_load to handle buffer loading in the renderer
(as this is a renderer dependant operation).
- Remove EGLStream code, nvidia support will re-introduced,
when 470 hopefully lands with GBM support this summer.
- Greately simplify the native code by setting exclusively on
`EGL_EXT_platform_base` and its extensions for initialization.
- Remove generic parameters for the underlying objects on `EGLDisplay`
and `EGLSurface` by using trait objects instead.
- Allow creation of `EGLContext`s without a config for surface-less usage.
- Remove the `Device`, `Surface`, `RawDevice` and `RawSurface` traits.
We are not trying to merge the different responsibilities between...
- Drm-Surfaces: crtcs and planes for displaying buffers
- Gbm-Surfaces: allocating and managing front- and back-buffers
- EGL-Surfaces: Load drawing apis.
..anymore.
- Instead unify the legacy and atomic backends into one `DrmDevice` and
a `DrmSurface`, that under the hood dispatches onto the different modules.
- Do not keep a list of surfaces inside the devices. These are reference-counting
nightmares and a frequent issue due to the read-only nature of `Rc` and `Arc` and
thread-safety related problems.
- Surfaces are mostly doing state-tracking independently of each other
and contain some more helper functions.
- Simplify session code, because we do not need to pass the events
through three layers of devices and surfaces anymore.
- Each surface now represents a plane. Rendering to a plane is just like
any other rendering step, including the Cursor-plane.
(Legacy interfaces only have one to avoid dealing with short-comings of the api).
- Add module that deals with different kinds of buffers (memory and external),
their allocation and usage for rendering. Also try to properly support modifiers this time.
- Describe gbm functionality as an allocator (instead of a rendering device/surface).
- Also create a quick-and-dirty dumb buffer allocator for tesing / simpler tasks.
- Add a (current untested) wrapper for dmabufs and some code for converting from gbm for now.
- (also untested) Swapchain helper to manage front/backbuffers for surfaceless rendering.
Victor Brekenfeld
Christian Meissl
Benjamin Lee