Right now, when a new output state field is added, all backends by
default won't reject it. This means we need to add new checks to
each and every backend when we introduce a new state field.
Instead, introduce a bitmask of supported output state fields in
each backend, and error out if the user has submitted an unknown
field.
Some fields don't need any backend involvment to work. These are
listed in WLR_OUTPUT_STATE_BACKEND_OPTIONAL as a convenience.
This commit makes more output properties (mode, enabled, scale and transform)
atomic. This means that they are double-buffered and only applied on commit.
Compositors now need to call wlr_output_commit after setting any of those
properties.
Internally, backends still apply properties sequentially. The behaviour should
be exactly the same as before. Future commits will update some backends to take
advantage of the atomic interface. Some backends are non-atomic by design, e.g.
the X11 backend or the legacy DRM backend.
Updates: https://github.com/swaywm/wlroots/issues/1640
The backend doesn't need to handle transform changes, since everything is done
in software. In fact, all of the implementations were all identical and just
set the transform.
We could add support for hardware transforms, but:
- This would require a different field (something like hardware_transform)
- Not all combinations are possible because there often are hardware
limitations
- The Wayland protocol isn't ready for this (in particular xdg-output, see [1])
This belongs to a different patch series anyway.
[1]: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/series/52324/
This updates the backend part of the output API. This is mostly renaming:
make_current becomes attach_render and swap_buffers becomes commit.
This also fixes the RDP backend to support NULL damage.
backend/headless/output.c:132:3: error: format specifies type 'long' but the argument has type 'size_t' (aka 'unsigned int') [-Werror,-Wformat]
++backend->last_output_num);
^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
backend/noop/output.c:72:3: error: format specifies type 'long' but the argument has type 'size_t' (aka 'unsigned int') [-Werror,-Wformat]
++backend->last_output_num);
^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
backend/wayland/output.c:294:3: error: format specifies type 'unsigned long' but the argument has type 'size_t' (aka 'unsigned int') [-Werror,-Wformat]
++backend->last_output_num);
^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
backend/x11/output.c:150:3: error: format specifies type 'long' but the argument has type 'size_t' (aka 'unsigned int') [-Werror,-Wformat]
++x11->last_output_num);
^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
This improves the way the output numbers are handled for the noop
backend. Instead of using the number of active outputs plus one, the
last used number is stored and new outputs will increment it. This
fixes the situation where you start with one output, create a second,
close the first, and create a third. Without this, both outputs will be
NOOP-2, which causes an issue since the identifier will also be
identical. With this, the last output is NOOP-3 and the outputs can be
distinguished.
The noop backend is similar to headless, but it doesn't contain a
renderer. It can be used as a place to stash views for when there's no
physical outputs connected.
Simon Ser
Rouven Czerwinski
Jan Beich
Ilia Bozhinov
Brian Ashworth
Ryan Dwyer