Re: [9front] [drawterm] Wayland support and misc patches

[Stanley Lieber <sl@stanleylieber.com>]

On October 14, 2021 1:59:54 AM UTC, Jacob Moody <moody@mail.posixcafe.org> wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I've written a wayland graphical backend for drawterm and have been dogfooding it for
>a little bit now. I think most of the larger bugs have been worked out of it.
>There is also a patch for adding pipewire support for devaudio.
>For both of these there is a patch for adding a CONF=linux target
>
>While working on these I found that there is code in libc/ that expects
>to be compiled with -DPTHREAD to avoid resorting to spin locks.
>I think we might want to add -DPTHREAD to the unix target CFLAGS.
>However adding the define on my machine caused gcc to get confused about
>the ordering of the members for kern/devmouse.c:/^Cursorinfo\tarrow/
>There is a patch that specifies the members, which seemed to fix the issue. But I am sure what is causing this.
>
>Also I am not sure why there was a sleep within the kern/term.c:/^resizeproc/ loop, but I noticed the delay
>when working on the wayland backend. There is a patch for removing that sleep.
>
>Not sure which, if any, of these are desirable to have upstream but wanted to offer them up.
>
>
>Thanks,
>moody
don't have a machine to test with yet but this will come in handy around december.

thanks!

sl