The Xrender backend was added at the time when OpenGL drivers were not
particularly stable. Nowadays though, it's a totally different situation.
The OpenGL render backend has been the default one for many years. It's
quite stable, and it allows implementing many advanced features that
other render backends don't.
Many features are not tested with it during the development cycle; the
only time when it is noticed is when changes in other parts of kwin break
the build in the xrender backend. Effectively, the xrender backend is
unmaintained nowadays.
Given that the xrender backend is effectively unmaintained and our focus
being shifted towards wayland, this change drops the xrender backend in
favor of the opengl backend.
Besides being de-facto unmaintained, another issue is that QtQuick does
not support and most likely will never support the Xrender API. This
poses a problem as we want thumbnail items to be natively integrated in
the qtquick scene graph.
The main advantage of SPDX license identifiers over the traditional
license headers is that it's more difficult to overlook inappropriate
licenses for kwin, for example GPL 3. We also don't have to copy a
lot of boilerplate text.
In order to create this change, I ran licensedigger -r -c from the
toplevel source directory.
Summary:
This change adds detection support for virgl (Mesa gallium virtio guest driver).
Results in proper detection in supportInformation and debug console.
Test Plan: Modified test passes, run KWin_Wayland in kvm with virgl and verified supportInformation
Subscribers: kwin
Tags: #kwin
Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D25056
Summary:
Currently, KWin is not able to detect Radeon GPUs with GCN architecture.
This patch tries to address that.
Reviewers: #kwin, graesslin
Reviewed By: #kwin, graesslin
Subscribers: graesslin, kwin
Tags: #kwin
Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D17715
Summary:
The Qualcom Adreno classes are recognized and a version detection
workaround is added for libhybris which only announces GLES version 2
although GLES version 3 is supported. KWin at least used to work with
GLES version 3 which gives us e.g. framebuffer blit.
Reviewers: #kwin, bshah
Subscribers: kwin
Tags: #kwin
Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D2415
Example data harvested from bugs.kde.org: open bugs against kwin with
a comment containing supportInformation.
We can see that especially detecting modern radeon gpus is not working.
The new test can load "profiles" from kconfig files in the test data.
Based on that the glGetString return values are mocked and GLPlatform
can perform detect without having to interact with a real GL library.
That way we can verify that the detect code works correctly. As a first
test the settings of one Intel/IvyBridge is included. More tests can be
added easily (e.g. looking at various supportInformation output in
bugs.kde.org). Also this allows to more easily add detect code for GPUs
we do not know yet. And to simulate conditions where the detect code
failed resulting in no compositing at all.
