Collabora's Devs Make Android's HWC API Work in Mainline Linux Graphics Stack

Collabora's Mark Filion informs Softpedia today about the latest work done by various Collabora developers in collaboration with Google's ChromeOS team to enable mainline graphics on Android.

The latest blog post published by Collabora's Robert Foss reveals the fact that both team managed to develop a shim called drm_hwcomposer, which should enable Android's HWC (Hardware Composer) API to communicate with the graphics hardware, including Android 7.0's version 2 HWC API.

Android's SurfaceFlinger, a system service responsible for compositing all the system and application surfaces into a single buffer uses the HWC API. However, at the moment, the HWC API is not supported on the mainline Linux graphics stack. This is where the drm_hwcomposer shim developed by Collabora comes into play.

"Since the mainline kernel graphics stack doesn't offer the HWC API, drm_hwcom... (read more)

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