Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 6 Feb 2018 17:00:13 +0200 | From | Pekka Paalanen <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] drm/virtio: Add window server support |
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On Mon, 5 Feb 2018 17:03:22 +0100 Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 05, 2018 at 03:46:17PM +0100, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > > On 02/05/2018 01:20 PM, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > Hmm. I allways assumed the wayland client allocates the buffers, not > the server. Is that wrong?
Hi Gerd,
a fly-by comment here:
The standard operation mode on Wayland indeed is that the client allocates any pixel buffers. It is not the whole story though.
Server allocated buffers passed to a client also exist: - core protocol uses this to pass keymaps to clients - people are not forbidden from writing Wayland extensions that do this for whatever reason
The latter server-allocated case could probably be overlooked, but the keymap case not really. Furthermore, copy&paste and drag&drop protocol pass pipe file descriptors via Wayland to establish client-to-client pipes.
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