Re: drm properties, ABI and compositors

On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 4:43 AM, Dave Airlie airlied@gmail.com wrote:

(are there any closed source compositors?)

Afaik everyone's hwc driver for surface flinger is a blob and only code-dropped for nexus devices since google requires that. So can't really use those one-offs to develop new stuff since it's a fork of the internal one and because it's only published way at the end of a product development cycle. Imo there's not really any reason for this except the usual "valuable ip, must hide" reflex, and I'm hopeful that with atomic we might actually see a somewhat sane hwc in google's repo and maybe could use that ... -Daniel