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author | Kristian Høgsberg <krh@bitplanet.net> | 2010-07-28 22:52:06 -0400 |
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committer | Kristian Høgsberg <krh@bitplanet.net> | 2010-07-28 22:52:06 -0400 |
commit | e0f5cc25740aa39b203eb6fbfc44b73f1012e290 (patch) | |
tree | 7c54b0fcd6887a78e1aeaa1451571086578a39b8 /spec | |
parent | 808fd4186109960f687507fb326f43b3dae75078 (diff) |
Minor spec edits
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diff --git a/spec/main.tex b/spec/main.tex index 6d5ee2c..330d672 100644 --- a/spec/main.tex +++ b/spec/main.tex @@ -20,18 +20,21 @@ \subsection{Replacing X11} -Over the last 10 years, a lot of functionality have slowly moved out -of the X server and into libraries or kernel drivers. It started with -freetype and fontconfig providing an alternative to the core X fonts -and direct rendering OpenGL as a graphics driver in a client side -library. Then cairo came along and provided a modern 2D rendering -library independent of X and compositing managers took over control of -the rendering of the desktop. Recently with GEM and KMS in the Linux +Over time, a lot of functionality have slowly moved out of the X +server and into client-side libraries or kernel drivers. One of the +first components to move out was font rendering, with freetype and +fontconfig providing an alternative to the core X fonts. Direct +rendering OpenGL as a graphics driver in a client side library. Then +cairo came along and provided a modern 2D rendering library +independent of X and compositing managers took over control of the +rendering of the desktop. Recently with GEM and KMS in the Linux kernel, we can do modesetting outside X and schedule several direct rendering clients. The end result is a highly modular graphics stack. +\subsection{Make the compositing manager the display server} + Wayland is a new display server building on top of all those -components. We’re trying to distill out the functionality in the X +components. We are trying to distill out the functionality in the X server that is still used by the modern Linux desktop. This turns out to be not a whole lot. Applications can allocate their own off-screen buffers and render their window contents by themselves. In the end, |