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Olivier Fourdan authored Aug 03, 2020 and Pekka Paalanen committed Aug 14, 2020

weston-info is now deprecated in favor of wayland-info which is part of
wayland-utils.

Add a note to weston-info to inform users that weston-info is deprecated
and will be removed soon.
Signed-off-by: Olivier Fourdan <ofourdan@redhat.com>

This client contains driver-specific code to allocate buffers. However clients
shouldn't contain driver-specific code and should rely on e.g. mesa to allocate
buffers via standard interfaces.

Additionally, because the build system always tries to enable all features, some
experimental drivers and drivers that aren't included in amd64 distribution
packages were required. Users would need to manually disable some drivers.
Releasers would need to install libdrm from source (because the release process
forbids adding custom build flags). Dropping simple-dmabuf-drm simplifies both
building and releasing.

The functionality previously tested via simple-dmabuf-drm can now be tested with
simple-dmabuf-egl.
Signed-off-by: Simon Ser <contact@emersion.fr>

Marius Vlad authored Jun 14, 2019 and Pekka Paalanen committed Jun 25, 2019

Found while being parsed by doxygen (when used recursively), this fixes
the markdown bits as to be displayed properly.
Signed-off-by: Marius Vlad <marius.vlad@collabora.com>

Marius Vlad authored Jun 05, 2019 and Pekka Paalanen committed Jun 25, 2019

Signed-off-by: Marius Vlad <marius.vlad@collabora.com>

configure.ac is no more, and in meson.build there are no minor or patch
versions for libweston, only major.
Signed-off-by: Pekka Paalanen <pekka.paalanen@collabora.com>

Pekka Paalanen authored Feb 01, 2019 and Daniel Stone committed Feb 11, 2019

Explain how to use with Meson, as autotools is going away.

The instructions have been copied from
https://wayland.freedesktop.org/building.html

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Signed-off-by: Pekka Paalanen <pekka.paalanen@collabora.com>

Make it official that libweston will export the weston_config API, as requested
in !29

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There is no other way third party helper clients could access the API.

The autotools build has been accidentally exporting it all the time, but the
Meson build needed fixing.
Signed-off-by: Pekka Paalanen <pekka.paalanen@collabora.com>

Move the README file to Markdown, and update it to attempt to explain
the current status and use of Weston.

The first sections are user-facing, so they can quickly understand what
Weston is, what it does, what it doesn't do, and how to go about using
it. The following sections on libweston and for distribution packagers
are left intact, but should probably be moved to separate documents.

This includes a screenshot of Weston running weston-terminal, Chrome and
simple-egl, which was taken by myself and subject to the same licensing
terms as the rest of the tree.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Stone <daniels@collabora.com>
Reviewed-by: Quentin Glidic <sardemff7+git@sardemff7.net>
Reviewed-by: Pekka Paalanen <pekka.paalanen@collabora.co.uk>

Daniel Stone authored Jun 09, 2018 and Pekka Paalanen committed Jun 11, 2018

Update issue report and build instruction URLs for moving to GitLab, and
for everything having been HTTPS-only for quite some time.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Stone <daniels@collabora.com>
Reviewed-by: Pekka Paalanen <pekka.paalanen@collabora.co.uk>

Emil Velikov authored Aug 15, 2016 and Morgane Glidic committed Aug 15, 2016

Since one is (about to be) using libweston, they should check for it as
opposed to libwayland.

Silly copy/paste mistake that would have caused a lot of confusion.
Signed-off-by: Emil Velikov <emil.velikov@collabora.com>
Reviewed-by: Quentin Glidic <sardemff7+git@sardemff7.net>

We have agreed to use the major as the ABI-version, so talk about major
to avoid confusion.

Remove unncessary or incorrect wording related to breaking ABI on minor
bumps.

Explain a little about the weston vs. libweston version numbers.

v2:
- Add a paragraph about ABI breaks between alpha and .0 releases.
- clarify pre-release definition
- Add two paragraphs about libweston versions differing from weston
  version and how to use pkg-config properly.
Signed-off-by: Pekka Paalanen <pekka.paalanen@collabora.co.uk>
Reviewed-by: Quentin Glidic <sardemff7+git@sardemff7.net>
Reviewed-by: Jonas Ådahl <jadahl@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Emil Velikov <emil.velikov@collabora.com>

Emil Velikov authored Jul 22, 2016 and Pekka Paalanen committed Aug 02, 2016

Signed-off-by: Emil Velikov <emil.velikov@collabora.com>
Reviewed-by: Pekka Paalanen <pekka.paalanen@collabora.co.uk>
Reviewed-by: Quentin Glidic <sardemff7+git@sardemff7.net>

Signed-off-by: Bryce Harrington <bryce@osg.samsung.com>

Emil Velikov authored Jul 04, 2016 and Pekka Paalanen committed Jul 05, 2016

v2: Elaborate what is meant with "major ABI versions" (Pekka).
Signed-off-by: Emil Velikov <emil.velikov@collabora.com>
Reviewed-by: Pekka Paalanen <pekka.paalanen@collabora.co.uk> (v1)

Emil Velikov authored Jul 04, 2016 and Pekka Paalanen committed Jul 05, 2016

v2: Rewrap, add a couple of missing words (Pekka).
v3: Use alternative wording (Yong).
Signed-off-by: Emil Velikov <emil.velikov@collabora.com>
Reviewed-by: Pekka Paalanen <pekka.paalanen@collabora.co.uk>

This is the start of separating weston-the-compositor source files from
libweston source files.

This is moving all the files related to the 'weston' binary. Also the
CMS and systemd plugins are moved.

xwayland plugin is not moved, because it will be turned into a
libweston feature.

To avoid breaking the build, #includes for weston.h are fixed to use
compositor/weston.h. This serves as a reminder that such files may need
further attention: moving to the right directory, or maybe using the
proper -I flags instead.

v2: Move also screen-share.c, and add a note about weston-launch.
Signed-off-by: Pekka Paalanen <pekka.paalanen@collabora.co.uk>
Reviewed-by: Yong Bakos <ybakos@humanoriented.com>
Acked-by: Daniel Stone <daniels@collabora.com>
Reviewed-by: Quentin Glidic <sardemff7+git@sardemff7.net>
Tested-by: Quentin Glidic <sardemff7+git@sardemff7.net>
Tested-by: Benoit Gschwind <gschwind@gnu-log.net>
Acked-by: Benoit Gschwind <gschwind@gnu-log.net>
[Pekka: rebased]

This patch completely removes the Raspberry Pi backend and the renderer.

The backend and the renderer were written to use the proprietary
DispmanX API available only on the Raspberry Pi, to demonstrate what the
tiny computer is capable of graphics wise. They were also used to
demonstrate how Wayland and Weston in particular could leverage hardware
compositing capabilities that are not OpenGL. The backend was first
added in e8de35c9, in 2012.

Since then, the major point has been proven. Over time, support for the
rpi-backend diminished, it started to deteriorate and hinder Weston
development. On May 11, I tried to ask if anyone actually cared about
the rpi-backend, but did not get any votes for keeping it:
https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-devel/2016-May/028764.html

The rpi-backend is a good example of how using an API that is only
available for specific hardware, even more so as it is only available
with a proprietary driver stack, is not maintainable in the long run.
Most developers working on Weston either just cannot, or cannot bother
to test things also on the RPi. Breakage creeps in without anyone
noticing. If someone actually notices it, fixing it will require a very
specific environment to be able to test. Also the quality of the
proprietary implementation fluctuated. There are reports that RPi
firmware updates randomly broke Weston, and that nowadays it is very
hard to find a RPi firmware version that you could expect to work with
Weston if Weston itself was not broken. We are not even sure what is
broken nowadays.

This removal does not leave Raspberry Pi users cold (for long), though.
There is serious work going on in implementing a FOSS driver stack for
Raspberry Pi, including modern kernel DRM drivers and Mesa drivers. It
might not be fully there yet, but the plan is to be able to use the
standard DRM-backend of Weston on the RPis. See:
http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/VC4/



The rpi-backend had its moments. Now, it needs to go. Good riddance!
Signed-off-by: Pekka Paalanen <pekka.paalanen@collabora.co.uk>
Reviewed-by: Derek Foreman <derekf@osg.samsung.com>
Acked-by: Bryce Harrington <bryce@osg.samsung.com>
Acked-by: Jonas Ådahl <jadahl@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Daniel Stone <daniels@collabora.com>

Jon A. Cruz authored Jul 15, 2015 and Pekka Paalanen committed Jul 17, 2015

Signed-off-by: Jon A. Cruz <jonc@osg.samsung.com>
Reviewed-by: Pekka Paalanen <pekka.paalanen@collabora.co.uk>

What is libweston and where do we intend to go with it.
Signed-off-by: Pekka Paalanen <pekka.paalanen@collabora.co.uk>
Reviewed-by: Bryce Harrington <bryce@osg.samsung.com>
Acked-by: Giulio Camuffo <giuliocamuffo@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Daniel Stone <daniels@collabora.com>
Acked-by: Jon A. Cruz <jonc@osg.samsung.com>

Signed-off-by: Bryce Harrington <b.harrington@samsung.com>

And one in the main.tex spec document.
Signed-off-by: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@who-t.net>

Replace aclocal; autoconf invocation in Wayland build instructions with
an up-to-date ./autogen.sh invocation.
Signed-off-by: Nikolai Kondrashov <spbnick@gmail.com>