On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 7:20 PM, Tim Jester-Pfadt <t.jp@gmx.de> wrote:
Hello,
now that XWayland changed to being it's own server binary, rather than a module for X11, there are several obsolete drivers on the AUR which only create confusion.[1][2][3] The new XWayland doesn't need patched drivers anymore.
"In the old model, things like modesetting were done in the video driver, unfortunately. In the old model, we simply patched Xorg with a special magical mode to tell video drivers not to do anything too tricky. For instance, the xf86-video-intel driver had a special branch for Xwayland support<http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-intel/log/?h=xwayland>. For generic hardware support, we wrote a generic, unaccelerated driver<http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-wayland> that stubbed out most of the functions we needed. With the new approach, we don’t need to patch anything at all." [4]
There is also an orphaned build of the development X server, which tries to build the old deprecated XWayland approach. [5] You can see this, because it has --enable-wayland instead of the new --enable-xwayland. Another build is a duplicated of the defacto standard xwayland package (xwayland-git) the difference is that it not only builds XWayland, but also the whole X11 server from the development branch even though this is not needed.[6] People could just use the xorg-server-dev and install xwayland-git and get the same thing.
[1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/xf86-video-ati-xwayland-git/ - Orphaned [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/xf86-video-intel-xwayland-git/ - Maintained by plfiorini<https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/?K=plfiorini&SeB=m> [3] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/xf86-video-wlglamor-git/ - Orphaned [4] http://blog.mecheye.net/2014/04/xwayland/ [5] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/xorg-server-xwayland/ - Orphaned [6] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/xorg-server-xwayland-dev / - Maintained by maxi_jac<https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/?K=maxi_jac&SeB=m>
I wanted to go through the xwayland packages eventually, but since you listed them so nicely... Thank you for that. I've removed [1], [2], [3], [5] I think it makes sense to keep [6], until the xorg-server-git gets xwayland support, because not everyone wants to have two x servers installed.