I need some help to fully understand the buffers design

[Eleni Maria Stea]

On 04/04/2013 06:22 PM, Kevin DuBois wrote:
> We will need an implementation of mg::Display that sits on top of the
> SDL/X api. This is how mir's final composition would posted to the
> screen.
>
> As for the "3rd type" of buffers, the buffers in gbm/android are color
> buffers backed by memory we got from the driver platforms that have
> certain capabilities. (The buffers must be usable as EGLImages,
> transmittable over ipc, mappable for usage in the driver as a GL
> target) I'm unaware of anything in SDL that has this capability, as
> SDL is (as my understanding goes) more of a cross-platform toolkit.
I think that the SDL capabilities are not an issue since I probably can
create the EGL images from GLES2 textures

>
> I haven't dived as deep into the problem as you, but I still think
> that the crux of the problem is to create the display type, and then
> figure out the permissions on the GBM buffers so that X and Mir can
> both operate under the same roof

Ok! I will check it again and see if I can find a way to make this work! :-)

Thank you,
Eleni