Roadmap 2012

[Norman Feske]

Hi Wes,

> Another thought I had yesterday was Wayland, however it's my
> understanding that it currently relies on xorg drivers so might be
> hard to port directly.  However it sounds like it's similar to Liquid
> FB from a very cursory glance, so maybe implementing just the protocol
> itself can be fairly straightforward without sacrificing anything?

You are spot-on with mentioning Wayland. Indeed, this is one of the
projects already mentioned at our challenges page:

  http://genode.org/community/wiki/Challenges

Wayland is independent from xorg. However, it relies on the GPU driver
normally found in the Linux kernel as well as the user-level bindings
found in libdrm. Fortunately, we have already ported (most of) these
parts for Intel GPUs to Genode. See:

  http://genode.org/documentation/release-notes/10.08#section-0

Even though our port is still at an experimental stage (and we haven't
actively worked on it for a while), it can serve as a solid starting point.

That said, I would prioritize the work on the Wayland integration lower
than the points I subsumed under the label "fundamental" in my last
email. Once we made the big step of switching to Genode to do actual
development work, our desire for high-performance graphics will follow
soon enough. Of course, if anyone steps up and wants to start working on
this topic right away, I'd be glad to assist.

Cheers
Norman