Mir

  1. Bug #1118903
  2. Comment #30

Comment 30 for bug 1118903

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Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) wrote : Re: [enhancement] Mir lacks a software rendering backend

Status update...

GL Support:
DONE: Verified LLVMpipe supports Mir's default GL renderer (see bug 1576032)

Client buffers:
DONE: We have separated ShmBuffer into generic code so all graphics drivers can use it.
TODO: Add support for rendering GL from LLVMpipe to ShmBuffers instead of GBM (see bug 1576032)

Server display buffers:
TODO: Add support for rendering GL from LLVMpipe to DRM dumb buffers (see bug 1575516), or something fb-ish.

Mode setting:
Stuck between a rock and a hard place. Mesa dropped support for fbdev last year [1]. Meanwhile, its likely replacement has fallen silent and nothing has landed [2].

[1] https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/mesa-commit/2015-March/055567.html
[2] https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dri-devel/2014-January/052584.html