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
This patch ensures that the displayed pixel buffer is always consistent
by applying intermediate drawing steps on an invisible back buffer,
which is blitted to the front buffer by the GUI server.
Note that the addition of the back buffer increases the decorator's RAM
demand by 4*w*h (4 bytes per pixel) whereas w and h are the screen size.
Issue #5350
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
This patch changes the precision of the configuration's motion attribute
to a multiple of 10 ms (centi-seconds). The previous version used steps
of 20 ms. Hence, one needs to adjust existing configurations by doubling
the motion attribute values of the themed decorator.
Issue #5347
This patch removes the use of sync signals as time source. The animation
phase is now timed using a timer connection as tick source while sync
signals are used for scheduling the redraws.
Issue #5347
This commit streamlines the interaction between the Wifi::Manager
and the wpa_supplicant's CTRL interface.
As user-facing changes it alters some default settings and introduces
new features:
* Every configured network now needs to explicitly have its
'auto_connect' (to be considered an option for joining) attribute
set to 'true' whereas this was previously the default value if the
attribute was not set at all.
* The 'log_level' attribute is added and configures the supplicant's
verbosity. Valid values correspond to levels used by the supplicant
and are as follows 'excessive', 'msgdump', 'debug', 'info', 'warning'
and 'error'. The default value is 'error' and configures the least
amount of verbosity.
* The 'bgscan' attribute may be used to configure the way the
supplicant performs background-scanning to steer or rather optimize
roaming decision within the same network. The default value is set
to 'simple:30:-70:600'. It can be disabled by specifying an empty
value, e.g. 'bgscan=""'.
* The 'verbose_state' attribute was removed alltogether and similar
functionality is now coverted by 'verbose' attribute.
Implementation-wise the internals changed significantly and are
outlined in the following paragraphs.
Formerly the interaction between the manager and the supplicant
was handled in an apparent way where the internal state of each
interaction was in plain sight. This made the flow cumbersome to
follow and therefor each interaction is now confined to its own
'Action' object that encapsulates the ping-pong of commands and
responses between the manager and the supplicant. All actions are
processed in an sequential way and thus there is no longer any
need to defer pending actions depending on the interal state of
the current interaction. Configuration changes as well as events
issued by the supplicant where new actions can be created are
handled in this fashion. Of note are both signal-handlers,
'_handle_cmds' and '_handle_events' respectively.
The state report, which provides the information about the current
state of connectivity to a given wireless network, was dealt with
in the same vein and its handling was spread across the manager
implementation. Again, to make it easier to follow, the generation
of the state report is now purely driven by the 'Join_state' object.
This object encapsulates the state of connectivity and is normally
updated by events issued from the supplicant (see '_handle_events').
It is also incorporated when handling command responses (see
'_handle_cmds').
Handling of timed-actions, like scan and signal quality
update requests, was done by setting a timeout at the Timer session
directly and thus only one timed-action could be pending at any time.
This excluded dealing with timed-actions like connected-scanning
and signal quality polling concurrently. This was changed and now
a One_shot_timeout is used to programm each concurrent timed-action.
For implementing the communication channel for the CTRL interface the
manager and supplicant use a shared memory buffer, the Msg_buffer.
Since the CTRL interface for Genode was implemented using C, some
shenanigans were performed to access the memory buffer. Now the
CTRL interface implementation uses C++ and only exports the functions
required by the supplicant as C. This simplifies the usage of the
Msg_buffer and allows for removing the global functions needed for
synchronizing the Msg_buffer access as those are now part of the
object itself via the 'Notify_interface'.
Fixes#5341.
When starting testnit with the wm, the child views briefly appear at a
position relative to the top-left corner of the screen until the
top-level view has been positioned by the layouter. This patch keeps
child views invisible until their respective parent views are
positioned.
When restacking a top-level view, execute the top-level restacking
before updating the child views. Otherwise, child views may wrongly
refer to the old stacking position of the top-level view.
Issue #5242
Use Genode namespace, indicate 'Main' members as being private,
use Session_object, remove unused '_focus_request_reporter',
use Id_space for Window_registry, replace lookup by with pattern.
With this patch, the wm accounts RAM and caps consumed on behalf of its
clients to the respective client's session quota instead of paying out
of its own pocket. This should make the wm resilient against resource
exhaustion and lowers the quota requirements.
Issue #5340
The current default session RAM quota of 36 KiB reflects the needs of
the nitpicker GUI server. However, in most commonly used scenarios, a
GUI client connects to nitpicker indirectly via the wm. The low value
worked so far because the wm did not account RAM and cap usage per
client so far but paid out of its own pocket and faithfully forwarded
all resource upgrades to nitpicker.
When adding resource accounting to the wm, the old default value has the
effect that a new client has to repeatedly attempt the session creation -
each time offering sligthly more session quota - until both nitpicker and
the wm are satisfied.
By roughly doubling the default to 80 KiB, a wm client immediately
succeeds with opening a GUI session without repeated attempts.
By specifying a custom 'cap_quota' amount to the 'Genode::Connection',
the Gui::Connection now donates enough caps for both the wm and
nitpicker.
Issue #5340
Don't use client-provided view IDs as IDs for the wrapped nitpicker
views. There is no 1:1 relation of IDs and physical views. So if a wm
client re-uses an ID, the physical view is expected to stay in tact.
If the corresponding view object within the wm is not destroyed, however,
its ID remains allocated, which may then conflict the ID of a new view
if the ID is reused by the client. This scenario resulted in the
following error:
Error: Uncaught exception of type 'Genode::Id_space<Gui::View_ref>::Conflicting_id'
This patch handles the situation by keeping the allocator of physical
views (_real_view) decoupled from the client's ID allocator.
Issue #5242
This patch enables basic use cases of the POSIX 'alarm' function, which
schedules the delivery of a SIGALRM signal after a specified amount of
seconds.
Issue #5337
Since the preset contains mesa_gpu-intel, it is specific to the pc
platform. Other platform-specific repos (such as allwinner) may contain
their own preset with the same name. To prevent that Sculpt images use
the wrong preset due to the particular order in the build.conf, we move
the preset into the pc repo.
Fixes#5322
This interface change gives GUI servers the freedom to allocate view
capabilities at the time of request instead of the creation time of the
view. This is useful because view capabilities are rarely needed.
Issue #5242
This patch moves the management of view IDs from the server to the
client side. The former 'create_view' and 'create_child_view'
operations do no longer return a view ID but take a view ID as
argument. While changing those operations, this patch takes the
opportunity to allow for initial view attributes. Combined, those
changes simplify the window manager while accommodating typical
client use cases with less code.
To ease the client-side ID management, the Gui::Connection hosts
a 'view_ids' ID space for optional use. E.g., the new 'Top_level_view'
class uses this ID space for ID allocation. This class accommodates the
most typical use case of opening a single window.
The 'alloc_view_id' RPC function is no longer needed.
Issue #5242
This patch reworks the view-ID handling within the nitpicker GUI server
and the window manager. The namespace of view handles are now represented
as an Id_space. In constrast to the former "handles", which could be
invalid, IDs cannot be semantically overloaded with anything other than
an actual view reference. There is no notion of an invalid handle.
IDs are like C++ references (which cannot be a nullptr).
This change requires the code to be more explicit. E.g., the stacking of
a few at the front-most position can no longer be expressed by passing
an invalid handle as neighbor.
Issue #5242
Express the allocation of a new view handle by a dedicated RPC function
instead of passing an invalid view handle to the existing 'view_handle'
function.
This eliminates the notion of invalid view handles at the GUI session
interface, clearing the way for managing view handles via an Id_space.
Issue #5242
This patch eliminates the use of invalid view handles as special
Session::Command arguments. The TO_FRONT and TO_BACK operations
interpreted as invalid neighbor as top-most or back-most position.
Those corner cases are now expressed via dedicated commands. The
new stacking commands are FRONT, BACK, FRONT_OF, and BEHIND_OF.
While changing the command interface, the patch removes the OP_
prefix from the opcode values.
Issue #5242
- Rename framebuffer_session to framebuffer and
input_session to input as those RPC interfaces are no longer
meant to be used as stand-alone sessions.
- Host Connection::input and Connection::framebuffer as public
members, thereby removing the use of pointers. This simplifies
the client-sized code. E.g., '_gui.input()->pending()' becomes
'_gui.input.pending()'.
Issue #5242
To maintain ease of use at the client side, the OUT_OF_RAM and
OUT_OF_CAPS results are handled at the 'Gui::Connection' now.
Gui::Connection does not inherit the Gui::Session interface any longer,
which allows for the use of different result types.
Issue #5242
Issue #5245
This patch replaces the optional parent argument of the create_view
RPC function by a dedicated create_child_view RPC function. This
is a preparatory step of removing the notion of an invalid handle
as a special case.
Issue #5242
The 'update_quality_interval' instructs the wifi driver to update
the approximated link quality to the currently connected AP every
30 seconds.
Issue #5262.
