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

[Alexander Kanavin]

On Tue, 18 Feb 2020 at 02:56, Khem Raj <raj.khem at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> 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
>

I have tested these things now:

1. Switching mips from cirrus to std vga works fine, as long as xorg.conf
is also deleted (it's written specifically for cirrus and isn't working or
needed with std vga). Both weston and sato boot and look right. I'll send a
patch for it.

2. Switching weston to kms backend degrades performance to unusable level,
as neither kvm nor virtio/virgl are available for non-x86 qemu, and kms
backend is using software renderer in mesa. So fbdev is the only realistic
option there. But for x86 qemu kms is still viable. I'm not sure how to
best configure it though.

Alex
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