Add EGLDevice backend #786

kchandra22134 · 2016-06-15T10:32:21Z

This adds interface to graphics application to create EGLDisplay
directly over GPU device as enabled by EGLDevice extensions

Modifies in GLFW library to add egldevice-drm backend.

This includes modifying a few existing files and creating four new files which are
specific to the backend that we are adding. For eg. in our case these are
egldevice_platform.h, egldevice_init.c, egldevice_window.c, egldevice_monitor.c .

In the file "egl_context.c" change selects the EGL_SURFACE_TYPE config attribute value to
EGL_STREAM_BIT_KHR instead of EGL_WINDOW_BIT and specify the window surface to the surface which we created using EGLStreams.

Other files "egl_context.h" and "internal.h" has minor changes to include the header files.
Also there are changes in CMake code files to include the newly created files.

Links to the EGL extensions used:

EGL_EXT_device_drm
https://www.khronos.org/registry/egl/extensions/EXT/EGL_EXT_device_drm.txt
EGL_KHR_stream
https://www.khronos.org/registry/egl/extensions/KHR/EGL_KHR_stream.txt
EGL_EXT_stream_consumer_egloutput
https://www.khronos.org/registry/egl/extensions/EXT/EGL_EXT_stream_consumer_egloutput.txt
EGL_KHR_stream_producer_eglsurface
https://www.khronos.org/registry/egl/extensions/KHR/EGL_KHR_stream_producer_eglsurface.txt

This adds interface to graphics application to create EGLDisplay directly over GPU device as enabled by EGLDevice extensions

elmindreda · 2016-07-11T13:59:06Z

This is an odd platform, but the impact on existing code is nicely small.

Are there any plans for input support? I won't reject it if there isn't, but it'd be good to know.

Is there any publicly available system where I could test this?

Do you know if you (personally or Nvidia) will be submitting updates as needed or if this is a one-time code drop? Again, I won't reject based on the answer but I need to know.

kchandra22134 · 2016-08-10T10:02:02Z

For testing this backend you can:
Use NVIDIA Linux GPU driver release 364.12 or later.
Use a Linux 4.1 or later kernel with DRM support enabled.
Stop the X server, or any other potential DRM client. This backend requires the ability to become DRM master in order to do modesets.

You can also refer to this: https://github.com/aritger/eglstreams-kms-example
where EGLDevice backend is demonstrated.

We have plans to submit more updates in this, as this is only the minimal functionality required to run the application.

elmindreda · 2016-08-10T11:14:12Z

@kchandra22134 Great, thank you!

This adds interface to graphics application to create EGLDisplay directly over GPU device as enabled by EGLDevice extensions Fixes #786.

Some minor bitrot had occurred since the patch was made. Related to #786.

Related to #786.

This adds interface to graphics application to create EGLDisplay directly over GPU device as enabled by EGLDevice extensions Fixes #786.

Some minor bitrot had occurred since the patch was made. Related to #786.

Related to #786.

alecjacobson · 2019-01-25T22:00:08Z

Is there any plan to integrate this?

kivutar · 2019-03-05T13:35:32Z

Supporting this would have a very positive effect for Raspberry Pi users. Linux distributions like Lakka, Retropie, LudOS and Recallbox could use GLFW and not have to package X11 or weston.
I case you decide to merge it for 3.3, I can participate in testing and maybe help maintaining this platform.

elmindreda · 2019-03-05T16:49:23Z

@kivutar I would gladly add this platform if it comes with a maintainer. I did some work with the original PR but it didn't seem to work on the machine I had available. Have you been able to get this PR to run on a current system?

kivutar · 2019-03-06T02:33:52Z

Not yet, I will try it today and tell you the results. We've been using a similar approach in RetroArch for a few years in some of the contexts here https://github.com/libretro/RetroArch/tree/master/gfx/drivers_context
and I've always thought that this abstraction layer shouldn't be kept in our software where it can't benefit other projects. I like to see GLFW going this way.

kivutar · 2019-03-06T14:20:56Z

I had to add the include path for libdrm.
Now I'm stuck on a missing declaration for PFNEGLSTREAMCONSUMERACQUIREATTRIBEXTPROC.
Except this last issue, the rest of GLFW compiles fine. Any idea of where is this supposed to be defined?

In case you manage to fix the PFNEGLSTREAMCONSUMERACQUIREATTRIBEXTPROC issue on your side, you will have to launch the examples from one of the TTY, not a terminal emulator.

elmindreda · 2019-03-06T16:04:37Z

I ran it from the console of a machine with no X server running. If I recall it failed to initialize or possibly there was a black screen. Tried some unrelated EGLDevice examples and they ran without issue.

See the egldevice branch for my initial attempt. It should have the declarations you need. I don't remember exactly what extension document I got them from.

kivutar · 2019-03-07T09:50:00Z

I'm also getting either Failed to initialize GLFW or Error: EGLDevice: Failed to find required extensions functions on either https://github.com/glfw/glfw/tree/egldevice or this current PR branch.
I have no issues launching other egldevice programs like retroarch.
So I will compare our implementation with this one.

But it looks quite different, as we're using EGL_PLATFORM_GBM_KHR or EGL_PLATFORM_X11_KHR and this PR is targeting EGL_PLATFORM_DEVICE_EXT.

MadcowD · 2019-10-31T19:22:19Z

I am desperate to have this branch merge into master (it affects a down-stream project greatly!)

Is there anyway I can help get it in a good position?

What are the current blockers in pushing this forward?

gsibley · 2020-07-16T07:05:52Z

Just wanted to vote for this. Would love to see headless rendering without a windowing system.

Fredrum · 2021-09-20T03:09:13Z

+1 for this!
(If I understand correctly and it allows drm rendering without X11?)

moroslantia · 2023-09-25T12:56:30Z

What is the current status of this?

It is mentioned in "New features in version 3.0"

(Experimental) EGL support
GLFW now has an experimental EGL context creation back end that can be selected through CMake options.

What are the supported function and how can they get accessed?

xiaohuihuige · 2024-12-30T11:04:42Z

太好了，爱你

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Add EGLDevice backend to GLFW

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This adds interface to graphics application to create EGLDisplay directly over GPU device as enabled by EGLDevice extensions

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This adds interface to graphics application to create EGLDisplay directly over GPU device as enabled by EGLDevice extensions Fixes #786.

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EGLDevice: Fix build after rebase

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Some minor bitrot had occurred since the patch was made. Related to #786.

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This adds interface to graphics application to create EGLDisplay directly over GPU device as enabled by EGLDevice extensions Fixes #786.

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EGLDevice: Fix build after rebase

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Some minor bitrot had occurred since the patch was made. Related to #786.

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Does GLFW support creating OpenGL contexts for headless rendering (to an offscreen buffer)? #648

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