The new Framebuffer::Session::sync_source RPC function allows for the
selection of a specific source of sync signals in the presence of
multiple capture clients at the GUI server.
This patch contains only the extension of the interface. The information
is not evaluated by the GUI server yet.
Issue #5347
This patch adds central and safe utilities for accessing the distinct
parts of the virtual framebuffer to relieve clients from pointer
calculations.
Issue #5351
Propagate the want of an alpha channel as attribute of Framebuffer::Mode
instead of passing this property as a separate bool argument.
This clears the way for adding useful accessors for pixel/alpha/input
surfaces to the Mode type as a subsequent step.
Issue #5351
By enhancing the Framebuffer::Session interface by the new RPC functions
'blit' and 'panning', GUI clients become able to attain tearing-free
output. Two modes of operations are supported.
1. Atomic back-to-front blitting
GUI clients that partially update their user interface like regular
application dialogs, can now implement double buffering by placing
both the back buffer and front buffer within the GUI session's
framebuffer and configuring a view that shows only the front buffer.
The 'blit' operation allows the client to atomically flush pixels
from the back buffer to the front buffer.
2. Atomic buffer flipping
GUI clients that always update all pixels like a media player or
a game can now use the 'panning' feature to atomically redirect the
displayed pixels to a different portion of the GUI session's virtual
frame buffer. The virtual framebuffer always contains two frames,
the displayed one and the next one. Once the next frame is complete,
the client changes the panning position to the portion containing
the next frame.
Issue #5350
Until now, Genode's framebuffer session interface was based on the
RGB565 pixel format. This patch changes the pixel format to 32-bit
XRGB where the X part is ignored. It adapts all graphical applications
and device drivers accordingly.
The patch also adjusts the users of the drivers_interactive packages,
assigning 64 MiB RAM and 1500 caps to the drivers subsystem, which is
sufficient for covering high resolutions at 32 bits per pixel and to
accommodate multi-component USB HID input stacks.
Fixes#3784
This patch adjusts the various users of the 'Child' API to the changes
on the account of the new non-blocking parent interface. It also removes
the use of the no-longer-available 'Connection::KEEP_OPEN' feature.
With the adjustment, we took the opportunity to redesign several
components to fit the non-blocking execution model much better, in
particular the demo applications.
Issue #2120
Besides adapting the components to the use of base/log.h, the patch
cleans up a few base headers, i.e., it removes unused includes from
root/component.h, specifically base/heap.h and
ram_session/ram_session.h. Hence, components that relied on the implicit
inclusion of those headers have to manually include those headers now.
While adjusting the log messages, I repeatedly stumbled over the problem
that printing char * arguments is ambiguous. It is unclear whether to
print the argument as pointer or null-terminated string. To overcome
this problem, the patch introduces a new type 'Cstring' that allows the
caller to express that the argument should be handled as null-terminated
string. As a nice side effect, with this type in place, the optional len
argument of the 'String' class could be removed. Instead of supplying a
pair of (char const *, size_t), the constructor accepts a 'Cstring'.
This, in turn, clears the way let the 'String' constructor use the new
output mechanism to assemble a string from multiple arguments (and
thereby getting rid of snprintf within Genode in the near future).
To enforce the explicit resolution of the char * ambiguity, the 'char *'
overload of the 'print' function is marked as deleted.
Issue #1987
This patch changes the top-level directory layout as a preparatory
step for improving the tools for managing 3rd-party source codes.
The rationale is described in the issue referenced below.
Issue #1082
