Module Linux_dmabuf_unstable_v1_client.Zwp_linux_dmabuf_v1

Factory for creating dmabuf-based wl_buffers.

Following the interfaces from: https://www.khronos.org/registry/egl/extensions/EXT/EGL_EXT_image_dma_buf_import.txt https://www.khronos.org/registry/EGL/extensions/EXT/EGL_EXT_image_dma_buf_import_modifiers.txt and the Linux DRM sub-system's AddFb2 ioctl.

This interface offers ways to create generic dmabuf-based wl_buffers.

Clients can use the get_surface_feedback request to get dmabuf feedback for a particular surface. If the client wants to retrieve feedback not tied to a surface, they can use the get_default_feedback request.

The following are required from clients:

• Clients must ensure that either all data in the dma-buf is coherent for all subsequent read access or that coherency is correctly handled by the underlying kernel-side dma-buf implementation.

• Don't make any more attachments after sending the buffer to the compositor. Making more attachments later increases the risk of the compositor not being able to use (re-import) an existing dmabuf-based wl_buffer.

The underlying graphics stack must ensure the following:

• The dmabuf file descriptors relayed to the server will stay valid for the whole lifetime of the wl_buffer. This means the server may at any time use those fds to import the dmabuf into any kernel sub-system that might accept it.

However, when the underlying graphics stack fails to deliver the promise, because of e.g. a device hot-unplug which raises internal errors, after the wl_buffer has been successfully created the compositor must not raise protocol errors to the client when dmabuf import later fails.

To create a wl_buffer from one or more dmabufs, a client creates a zwp_linux_dmabuf_params_v1 object with a zwp_linux_dmabuf_v1.create_params request. All planes required by the intended format are added with the 'add' request. Finally, a 'create' or 'create_immed' request is issued, which has the following outcome depending on the import success.

The 'create' request,

• on success, triggers a 'created' event which provides the final wl_buffer to the client.
• on failure, triggers a 'failed' event to convey that the server cannot use the dmabufs received from the client.

For the 'create_immed' request,

• on success, the server immediately imports the added dmabufs to create a wl_buffer. No event is sent from the server in this case.
• on failure, the server can choose to either:
• terminate the client by raising a fatal error.
• mark the wl_buffer as failed, and send a 'failed' event to the client. If the client uses a failed wl_buffer as an argument to any request, the behaviour is compositor implementation-defined.

For all DRM formats and unless specified in another protocol extension, pre-multiplied alpha is used for pixel values.

Unless specified otherwise in another protocol extension, implicit synchronization is used. In other words, compositors and clients must wait and signal fences implicitly passed via the DMA-BUF's reservation mechanism.

Disclaimer: This protocol extension has been marked stable. This copy is no longer used and only retained for backwards compatibility. The canonical version can be found in the stable/ directory.