[OE-core] [PATCH 05/10] weston-init: use the drm backend rather than fbdev one

[Khem Raj]

On Mon, Feb 17, 2020 at 11:29 AM Alexander Kanavin <alex.kanavin at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Mon, 17 Feb 2020 at 19:45, Khem Raj <raj.khem at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> hw acceleration is not going to work for non-x86 qemus, while other
>> qemus should be fixed but not
>> by breaking them first. As suggested limit this change to tested
>> architectures and it would be fine.
>> then if interested to fix it globally make changes to fix rest of
>> qemus and then instrument global change
>> after that
>>
>
> arm64 qemu should work, as it is using the same video hardware as x86_64.
> My computing resources are severely limited right now, so I cannot try it
> out immediately unfortunately,
>

Ok then resend it later


but I'll get to it, or you are welcome to try and report.
> Mips can be either fixed like suggested, or be a specific exception.
>
> For the rest of the targets, I see that you have extended the fbdev
> fallback to qemuall only on Jan 9 this year. So it's very unlikely anyone
> is using them to run weston (not to mention how painfully slow that would
> be), and so it would just be wasteful to test or fix them.
>

We should be only applying tested part debugging these breakages is very
hard so when we know it will break we should be careful as with this patch



>
> Alex
>
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