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Vastly Improved Raspberry Pi Performance With Wayland
New submitter nekohayo writes "While Wayland/Weston 1.1 brought support to the Raspberry Pi merely a month ago, work has recently been done to bring true hardware-accelerated compositing capabilities to the RPi's graphics stack using Weston. The Raspberry Pi foundation has made an announcement about the work that has been done with Collabora to make this happen. X.org/Wayland developer Daniel Stone has written a blog post about this, including a video demonstrating the improved reactivity and performance. Developer Pekka Paalanen also provided additional technical details about the implementation."
Rather than using the OpenGL ES hardware, the new compositor implementation uses the SoC's 2D scaler/compositing hardware which offers "a scaling throughput of 500 megapixels per second and blending throughput of 1 gigapixel per second. It runs independently of the OpenGL ES hardware, so we can continue to render 3D graphics at the full, very fast rate, even while compositing."
Wayland working on Pi is nice, but it's still a non-starter as long as it lacks networking.
but it doesnt change the fact the pi is a circa 2000 computer doing 2013 tasks ... poorly and hacky
Even the netbook that's driving my FDM printer runs X clients remotely, very nicely and Cura displays its 3D renders from the netbook to the X desktop system just fine using OpenGL remote. By the way, the netbook has NO OpenGL hardware.
On that same X desktop machine every Linux Steam game that I've tried works without any problem.
You want to re-invent the wheel, go right ahead, don't let me stop you. Just quit trying to displace something that works amazingly well for everything I want with some spatch-cocked thing that you cooked up to scratch your own itches.
And stop making asinine claims that nobody wants to do what I do every day.