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+.. SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-SA-2.0-UK
+
+Using Wayland and Weston
+************************
+
+:wikipedia:`Wayland <Wayland_(display_server_protocol)>`
+is a computer display server protocol that provides a method for
+compositing window managers to communicate directly with applications
+and video hardware and expects them to communicate with input hardware
+using other libraries. Using Wayland with supporting targets can result
+in better control over graphics frame rendering than an application
+might otherwise achieve.
+
+The Yocto Project provides the Wayland protocol libraries and the
+reference :wikipedia:`Weston <Wayland_(display_server_protocol)#Weston>`
+compositor as part of its release. You can find the integrated packages
+in the ``meta`` layer of the :term:`Source Directory`.
+Specifically, you
+can find the recipes that build both Wayland and Weston at
+``meta/recipes-graphics/wayland``.
+
+You can build both the Wayland and Weston packages for use only with targets
+that accept the :wikipedia:`Mesa 3D and Direct Rendering Infrastructure
+<Mesa_(computer_graphics)>`, which is also known as Mesa DRI. This implies that
+you cannot build and use the packages if your target uses, for example, the
+Intel Embedded Media and Graphics Driver (Intel EMGD) that overrides Mesa DRI.
+
+.. note::
+
+   Due to lack of EGL support, Weston 1.0.3 will not run directly on the
+   emulated QEMU hardware. However, this version of Weston will run
+   under X emulation without issues.
+
+This section describes what you need to do to implement Wayland and use
+the Weston compositor when building an image for a supporting target.
+
+Enabling Wayland in an Image
+============================
+
+To enable Wayland, you need to enable it to be built and enable it to be
+included (installed) in the image.
+
+Building Wayland
+----------------
+
+To cause Mesa to build the ``wayland-egl`` platform and Weston to build
+Wayland with Kernel Mode Setting
+(`KMS <https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Kernel_Mode_Setting>`__)
+support, include the "wayland" flag in the
+:term:`DISTRO_FEATURES`
+statement in your ``local.conf`` file::
+
+   DISTRO_FEATURES:append = " wayland"
+
+.. note::
+
+   If X11 has been enabled elsewhere, Weston will build Wayland with X11
+   support
+
+Installing Wayland and Weston
+-----------------------------
+
+To install the Wayland feature into an image, you must include the
+following
+:term:`CORE_IMAGE_EXTRA_INSTALL`
+statement in your ``local.conf`` file::
+
+   CORE_IMAGE_EXTRA_INSTALL += "wayland weston"
+
+Running Weston
+==============
+
+To run Weston inside X11, enabling it as described earlier and building
+a Sato image is sufficient. If you are running your image under Sato, a
+Weston Launcher appears in the "Utility" category.
+
+Alternatively, you can run Weston through the command-line interpretor
+(CLI), which is better suited for development work. To run Weston under
+the CLI, you need to do the following after your image is built:
+
+#. Run these commands to export ``XDG_RUNTIME_DIR``::
+
+      mkdir -p /tmp/$USER-weston
+      chmod 0700 /tmp/$USER-weston
+      export XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/tmp/$USER-weston
+
+#. Launch Weston in the shell::
+
+      weston
+