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Instead of artificially introducing collisions in the step value by replacing 0 with 1 (which causes the value 1 to have twice the frequency of any other value), the step value can simply be computed as an uniformly distributed value in the range [1, rehash], extremes included. This is safe because any step value smaller than the hash modulus is co-prime with it, hence induces an orbit which includes every integer in [0, size - 1]. |
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What is Wayland Wayland is a project to define a protocol for a compositor to talk to its clients as well as a library implementation of the protocol. The compositor can be a standalone display server running on Linux kernel modesetting and evdev input devices, an X applications, or a wayland client itself. The clients can be traditional applications, X servers (rootless or fullscreen) or other display servers. The wayland protocol is essentially only about input handling and buffer management. The compositor receives input events and forwards them to the relevant client. The clients creates buffers and renders into them and notifies the compositor when it needs to redraw. The protocol also handles drag and drop, selections, window management and other interactions that must go throught the compositor. However, the protocol does not handle rendering, which is one of the features that makes wayland so simple. All clients are expected to handle rendering themselves, typically through cairo or OpenGL. The wayland repository includes a compositor and a few clients, but both the compositor and clients are essentially test cases. Building Instructions The instructions below assume some familiarity with git and building and running experimental software. And be prepared that this project isn't at all useful right now, it's still very much a prototype. When the instructions suggest to clone a git repo, you can of course just add a remote and fetch instead, if you have a clone of that repo around already. I usually install all software I'm working on into $HOME/install, so that's what I'll use in the instructions below, but you can use your favorite directory of course or install over your system copy (pass --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc, generally). Modesetting At this point, kernel modesetting is upstream for Intel, AMD and nVidia chipsets. Most distributions ship with kernel modesetting enabled by default and will work with Wayland out of the box. The modesetting driver must also support the page flip ioctl, which only the intel driver does at this point. Building mesa Wayland uses the mesa EGL stack, and all extensions required to run EGL on KMS are now upstream on the master branch. The 7.9 release of mesa will have all these extensions, but for now you'll need to build mesa master: $ git clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa $ cd mesa $ ./configure --prefix=$HOME/install --enable-egl --enable-gles2 $ make && make install If you're using an intel chipset, it's best to also pass --disable-gallium to ./configure, since otherwise libEGL will try to load the gallium sw rasterizer before loading the Intel DRI driver. libxkbcommon Wayland needs libxkbcommon for translating evdev keycodes to keysyms. There's a couple of repos around, and we're trying to consolidate the development, but for wayland you'll need the repo from my git repository. For this you'll need development packages for xproto, kbproto and libX11. $ git clone git://people.freedesktop.org/~krh/libxkbcommon.git $ cd libxkbcommon/ $ ./autogen.sh --prefix=$HOME/install $ make && make install cairo-gl The Wayland clients render using cairo-gl, which is an experimental cairo backend. It has been available since cairo 1.10. Unless your distribution ships cairo with the gl backend enabled, you'll need to compile your own version of cairo: $ git clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/cairo $ cd cairo $ ./autogen.sh --prefix=$HOME/install --enable-gl $ make && make install Wayland With mesa and libxkbcommon in place, we can checkout and build Wayland. Aside from mesa, Wayland needs development packages for gdk-pixbuf-2.0, libudev, libdrm, xcb-dri2, xcb-fixes (for X compositor) cairo-gl, glib-2.0, gdk-2.0 (for poppler) and poppler-glib: $ git clone git://people.freedesktop.org/~krh/wayland $ ./autogen.sh --prefix=$HOME/install $ make && make install Installing into a non-/usr prefix is fine, but the 70-wayland.rules udev rule file has to be installed in /etc/udev/rules.d. Once installed, either reboot or run $ sudo udevadm trigger --subsystem-match=drm --subsystem-match=input to make udev label the devices wayland will use. If DISPLAY is set, the wayland compositor will run under X in a window and take input from X. Otherwise it will run on the KMS framebuffer and take input from evdev devices. Pick a background image that you like and copy it to the Wayland source directory as background.jpg or use the -b command line option: $ ./wayland-system-compositor -b my-image.jpg To run clients, switch to a different VT and run the client from there. Or run it under X and start up the clients from a terminal window. There are a few demo clients available, but they are all pretty simple and mostly for testing specific features in the wayland protocol: 'terminal' is a simple terminal emulator, not very compliant at all, but works well enough for bash 'flower' moves a flower around the screen, testing the frame protocol 'gears' glxgears, but for wayland, currently broken 'image' loads the image files passed on the command line and shows them 'view' does the same for pdf files, but needs file URIs (file:///path/to/pdf)