[arch-dev-public] [RFC] Add Wayland/Weston

[Allan McRae]

On 09/02/13 22:43, Andreas Radke wrote:
> Am Fri, 8 Feb 2013 09:07:26 -0500
> schrieb Dave Reisner <d at falconindy.com>:
> 
> 
>>> For Cairo, the GL backend is experimental. Given the fact that
>>> upstream fails to provide a stable release model for cairo (every
>>> released version is taken from master, featuring regressions), I
>>> wouldn't even think about enabling an experimental backend there.
>>
>> Upstream also claims that applications which don't make use of the GL
>> backend won't be bothered at all. I don't see the harm in a trial run
>> through [testing].
>>
>>> For Mesa, we have to look at how we can implement this without
>>> breaking existing stuff. I haven't looked much at Mesa recently, so
>>> I can't tell much about this.
>>
>> Backends are enabled on a priority basis. As long as we pass
>> "--with-egl-platforms=x11,drm,wayland" (in that order), we're fine.
>>
>> d
>>
> 
> I've pushed cairo with gl and egl backends to testing. xlib-xcb is now
> also enabled again that now should be safe to use.
> 

I don't know why, but this causes transmission-gtk to hit 100% CPU usage
on my system.

Allan