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That sentence is quite confusing, to my knowledge a better explanation would be: "The Android compatibility layer of Chrome OS implements a Wayland client to r
by mastax 8y ago
That 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...