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author | Scott Rifenbark <scott.m.rifenbark@intel.com> | 2013-06-07 19:42:16 +0300 |
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committer | Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org> | 2013-06-14 17:33:31 +0100 |
commit | 1ff4961788c2211286c8380a367ed49afe84ee13 (patch) | |
tree | 0c822d73aa31374840e8143513c64639b6ed38df /documentation | |
parent | 31c52bb7ac2511f6a3b9b7e73b2e611fa3f5ee64 (diff) | |
download | poky-1ff4961788c2211286c8380a367ed49afe84ee13.tar.gz |
ref-manual: Wayland section review draft
Fixes YOCTO #3882
This is the review draft for the wayland section.
(From yocto-docs rev: 54234dae5c2957ef2c1a6cb03a7e7fe0fa2cea34)
Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <scott.m.rifenbark@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'documentation')
-rw-r--r-- | documentation/ref-manual/technical-details.xml | 52 |
1 files changed, 37 insertions, 15 deletions
diff --git a/documentation/ref-manual/technical-details.xml b/documentation/ref-manual/technical-details.xml index 6f36a3a0fa..0634f5702d 100644 --- a/documentation/ref-manual/technical-details.xml +++ b/documentation/ref-manual/technical-details.xml | |||
@@ -743,23 +743,45 @@ | |||
743 | <title>Enabling Wayland in an Image</title> | 743 | <title>Enabling Wayland in an Image</title> |
744 | 744 | ||
745 | <para> | 745 | <para> |
746 | This section talks about two different ways to enable Wayland: | 746 | To enable Wayland, you need to enable it to be built and enable |
747 | to run under X11 (the default), or to run under Kernel Mode | 747 | it to be included in the image. |
748 | Setting (<ulink url='https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Kernel_Mode_Setting'>KMS</ulink>). | ||
749 | </para> | 748 | </para> |
750 | 749 | ||
751 | <para> | 750 | <section id="enable-building"> |
752 | I don't clearly understand the steps as they are described in the | 751 | <title>Building</title> |
753 | <ulink url='https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Wayland'>Enable Wayland in an Image</ulink> | 752 | |
754 | section of the wiki. | 753 | <para> |
755 | I need help in understanding this section before I can complete | 754 | To cause Mesa to build the <filename>wayland-egl</filename> |
756 | this first draft of the new section. | 755 | platform and Weston to build Wayland with Kernel Mode |
757 | What I don't understand is what you have to do exactly for each | 756 | Setting |
758 | method. | 757 | (<ulink url='https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Kernel_Mode_Setting'>KMS</ulink>) |
759 | The description in the wiki implies that you need to append the | 758 | support, include the "wayland" flag in the |
760 | "wayland" feature to use KMS/DRI as well as X11 (both). | 759 | <link linkend="var-DISTRO_FEATURES"><filename>DISTRO_FEATURES</filename></link> |
761 | I need some clarification and clearer steps for the user. | 760 | statement in your <filename>local.conf</filename> file: |
762 | </para> | 761 | <literallayout class='monospaced'> |
762 | DISTRO_FEATURES_append = " wayland" | ||
763 | </literallayout> | ||
764 | </para> | ||
765 | |||
766 | <note> | ||
767 | If X11 has been enabled elsewhere, Weston will build Wayland | ||
768 | with X11 support | ||
769 | </note> | ||
770 | </section> | ||
771 | |||
772 | <section id="enable-installation-in-an-image"> | ||
773 | <title>Installing</title> | ||
774 | |||
775 | <para> | ||
776 | To install the Wayland feature into an image, you must | ||
777 | include the following | ||
778 | <link linkend='var-CORE_IMAGE_EXTRA_INSTALL'><filename>CORE_IMAGE_EXTRA_INSTALL</filename></link> | ||
779 | statement in your <filename>local.conf</filename> file: | ||
780 | <literallayout class='monospaced'> | ||
781 | CORE_IMAGE_EXTRA_INSTALL += "wayland weston" | ||
782 | </literallayout> | ||
783 | </para> | ||
784 | </section> | ||
763 | </section> | 785 | </section> |
764 | 786 | ||
765 | <section id="running-weston"> | 787 | <section id="running-weston"> |