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> Hardware overlay is not only for video, but also for rendering Android applications that run on a hardware overlay plane, such as the Wayland client of Chrome
by floatboth 8y ago
> Hardware overlay is not only for video, but also for rendering Android applications that run on a hardware overlay plane, such as the Wayland client of Chrome OS.
What?
What is a "Wayland client of Chrome OS" and how is it an Android application??
- mastax 8y agoThat sentence is quite confusing, to my knowledge a better explanation would be: "The Android compatibility layer of Chrome OS implements a Wayland client to run on a hardware overlay plane." based on information from https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=XDC2016-ARC-Wayland https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=XDC2016-...
- floatboth 8y agoAh, so the Chrome OS UI, which is running directly on GBM/KMS, became a Wayland compositor just for the Android compatibility layer? (Oh, and for the recently announced Linux desktop apps support maybe?)
- zaxcellent 8y agoThe Wayland compositor was added to the Chrome OS UI to support Android, but it was very convenient for us to glob onto that for the Linux desktop apps support. https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/docs/+/HEAD/containers_and_vms.md#Can-I-run-Wayland-programs https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/docs/+/HEAD/con...