In order to support layered rendering and tiled outputs KWin needs to be
able to split rendering of outputs into multiple surfaces. This commit
prepares the drm backend for that, by moving most of the code in EglGbmBackend
out to a EglGbmSurface class, which will later be used for overlay surfaces
and rendering to multiple connectors side by side.
In doing that, this commit also cleans up the code a bit, removes a lot of
now unnecessary multi-gpu stuff and potentially makes modesets a little
bit more efficient by re-using resources more often.
The ifdefs for have_gbm obfuscate the code unnecessarily - the drm backend
is not a great experience with qpainter, so in practice noone should ship
it without gbm anyways.
The proprietary NVidia driver now supports gbm, which vastly improves the
user experience. For older devices that will not get gbm support dropping
EglStreams will likely not have a big impact as it has several session breaking
issues anyways.
By removing the backend a lot of logic can be simplified, most notably multi-gpu.
This allows using base opengl backends in libkwin, which can be useful
later on for the purpose of moving the ownership of render backends from
the Scene class to the Compositor class.
This improves file organization in kwin by putting backends in a single
directory.
It also makes easier to discover kwin's low level components for new
contributors because the plugins directory may come as the last place to
look for. When one hears "plugin", the first thing that comes to mind is
regular plugins, not low level backends.
2021-11-02 09:02:41 +00:00
Renamed from src/plugins/platforms/drm/CMakeLists.txt (Browse further)
