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ref-manual: Wayland section review draft

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Fixes YOCTO #3882

This is the review draft for the wayland section.

(From yocto-docs rev: c29482b4c3e32a955c6372c05b0e4d89d13b085d)

Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <scott.m.rifenbark@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
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<title>Enabling Wayland in an Image</title> <title>Enabling Wayland in an Image</title>
<para> <para>
This section talks about two different ways to enable Wayland: To enable Wayland, you need to enable it to be built and enable
to run under X11 (the default), or to run under Kernel Mode it to be included in the image.
Setting (<ulink url='https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Kernel_Mode_Setting'>KMS</ulink>).
</para> </para>
<para> <section id="enable-building">
I don't clearly understand the steps as they are described in the <title>Building</title>
<ulink url='https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Wayland'>Enable Wayland in an Image</ulink>
section of the wiki. <para>
I need help in understanding this section before I can complete To cause Mesa to build the <filename>wayland-egl</filename>
this first draft of the new section. platform and Weston to build Wayland with Kernel Mode
What I don't understand is what you have to do exactly for each Setting
method. (<ulink url='https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Kernel_Mode_Setting'>KMS</ulink>)
The description in the wiki implies that you need to append the support, include the "wayland" flag in the
"wayland" feature to use KMS/DRI as well as X11 (both). <link linkend="var-DISTRO_FEATURES"><filename>DISTRO_FEATURES</filename></link>
I need some clarification and clearer steps for the user. statement in your <filename>local.conf</filename> file:
</para> <literallayout class='monospaced'>
DISTRO_FEATURES_append = " wayland"
</literallayout>
</para>
<note>
If X11 has been enabled elsewhere, Weston will build Wayland
with X11 support
</note>
</section>
<section id="enable-installation-in-an-image">
<title>Installing</title>
<para>
To install the Wayland feature into an image, you must
include the following
<link linkend='var-CORE_IMAGE_EXTRA_INSTALL'><filename>CORE_IMAGE_EXTRA_INSTALL</filename></link>
statement in your <filename>local.conf</filename> file:
<literallayout class='monospaced'>
CORE_IMAGE_EXTRA_INSTALL += "wayland weston"
</literallayout>
</para>
</section>
</section> </section>
<section id="running-weston"> <section id="running-weston">