[OE-core] [PATCH 0/4] Mesa and Wayland updates

[Burton, Ross]

On 31 May 2013 08:18, Koen Kooi <koen at dominion.thruhere.net> wrote:
> We talked about weston off-list a few weeks ago and this seems a good time to bring it back on list :)
>
> I'd like to get the framebuffer backend supported, so I upgraded weston to 1.0.90 and added:
>
> +                 --enable-fbdev-compositor \
>
> +# Needed for weston-launch
> +WESTONBACKEND ??= "fbdev-backend.so"
> +
> +export WESTON_NATIVE_BACKEND = "${WESTONBACKEND}"
>
> At the time of writing that weston didn't support runtime detection or config files entries for selecting the backend, only commandline arguments. So whatever is getting picked at build time, you're stuck with that. Does 1.1.x address that situation?

Sadly, not as far as I'm aware.  I have 1.1 in another branch but it
totally broke GTK+ 3 applications (which didn't repaint after the
initial creation), which is pretty sad.  Relevant developers harassed.
:)

Ross