Track cadence, interruption, and calibration wake reasons independently
across X11 and Wayland. Feed phase correction back only when a pure
cadence wake renders the exact frame that was queued at that wake.
Propagate EGL swap results through the display-server boundary. Reject
failed presentations and keep pending Wayland HDR descriptions inactive
until the preceding surface commit succeeds.
Bump KVMFR to version 28 and attach generation, epoch, and deadline
identities to cadence deliveries and their timing records.
Accept phase corrections only for the exact completed publication. Keep
VM and client clocks independent by exchanging relative phase errors.
Make submission, completion, and work-estimate accounting best effort
so scheduler state cannot delay GPU submission or frame publication.
Copy imported IVSHMEM frames into renderer-owned textures before
acknowledging their LGMP messages. Hold each lease until its copy fence
signals, and protect selected snapshots until rendering completes.
Track independent delivery lanes, drain acknowledgements on the frame
thread, and recover stale queue subscriptions after host timeouts.
Move splash transitions onto the render thread and derive opacity from
elapsed monotonic time. Pace active animation at a display-compatible
minimum of 60 Hz while allowing incoming frames to satisfy that demand.
Reset the splash cleanly across reconnects and latch state changes with
the full-frame restoration decision.
Mark the active fade as requiring a fully restored render target.
This also covers guest-driven renders between animation ticks so they
cannot blend over stale splash content.
Correlate received frames with the texture update actually consumed by
the renderer and retain damage until its token becomes renderable.
Split client latency into dispatch, import, queue, preparation, setup,
effects, desktop, composition, and swap stages in FRAME LATENCY.
Exclude diagnostic overlay work from composition and preserve client
wait time when producer timing is unavailable.
Publish joined samples through a bounded token queue, avoid sleeping
while producer timing is finalized, and correct Wayland photon units.
Add an optional EGL framebuffer capture path for the test transport.
Capture the fully composed frame before presentation and retain its
surface format and HDR state for validation.
Add GoogleTest integration tests which run the production client
under a headless Weston compositor and compare every output pixel
against an independent reference implementation.
The matrix covers BGRA, RGBA, BGR32, RGB24, PQ RGBA10 and scRGB
RGBA16F with full, moving, overlapping, maximum-count, invalid, null
and zero-area damage rectangles. Validate HDR-to-SDR conversion and
native HDR output metadata when supported by the compositor.
Keep tests opt-in through ENABLE_RENDER_TESTS and document how to run
the software and native HDR tiers.
Move shared-memory ownership, LGMP session handling, queue access, and
DMA setup behind a transport interface. The LGMP backend preserves the
existing zero-copy frame and DMA paths while owning its lgmp:* options.
Expose the initialized EGL context through a versioned renderer interop
record for future accelerated decode backends. Add an LGMP-independent,
deterministic test transport for graphics-pipeline validation.
Model playback latency from the device period, arrival jitter, source
packet phase, and resampler delay. Treat audio:latencyOffset as an
explicit addition to this minimum and align the first device pull to
the next packet deadline. This starts playback near its steady-state
target without unnecessary prefill or startup underruns. Use a
512-frame default period as a practical low-latency baseline.
Replace the startup clock hold with a one-sided proportional
acquisition controller, then hand off to source/device rate
feed-forward and a slow phase loop. Calibrate the logical device
timeline at handoff, discard correction that opposes the current
error, and slew-limit rate changes. This prevents startup drain,
integral wind-up, overshoot, and long convergence while preserving
clock-drift compensation.
Allow audio backends to expose a real-time resampler and use
PipeWire's adaptive resampler when version 1.4 or newer supports it.
Retain libsamplerate as the fallback and add audio:resampler to select
the implementation. Wait for PipeWire stream setup to complete and
propagate rate-control failures cleanly.
Track PipeWire input-consumption and output-equivalent clocks
separately. The input clock measures ring latency while the output
clock drives feed-forward using the ratio that governed each request.
This removes delayed self-feedback that made adaptive resampling
oscillate between the correction limits.
Reduce audio:debug output to useful latency, clock, jitter, and xrun
values, and scale the playback graph from the startup estimate. Update
the option names and documentation for the new latency model.
Drive playback timing from audio sample positions instead of packet
arrival cadence. Use SPICE multimedia timestamps to anchor streams,
detect discontinuities, and estimate the long-term source rate. Ignore
their coarse phase corrections when steering the playback buffer.
Measure the device clock independently and wait for it to stabilize
before enabling a bounded, slew-limited phase controller. Align startup
buffering from logical producer and consumer positions so backend
startup reserves do not become persistent latency.
Size the buffer from the backend period, measured delivery jitter, and
resampler delay. Update PipeWire and PulseAudio to report their actual
startup requirements and presentation latency. Default to a 10 ms
device period with 4 ms of additional buffering, and make detailed
synchronization diagnostics opt-in through audio:debug.
This reduces startup and steady-state latency while compensating for
physical and virtual device clock drift without reacting to transport
jitter or SPICE timestamp quantization.
Request true floating-point EGL configs for scRGB and expose the native
encodings supported by the selected surface. Fall back to software HDR
mapping when the surface cannot represent the incoming wire format.
Resample PQ in linear light, keep SDR-only effects out of native PQ
chains, and consume the cursor-specific white level without changing
binary monochrome cursor mask operations.
Honor the IddCx 3x4 XYZ matrix and post-transfer LUT in the IDD
conversion pipeline. Carry transform changes to the client so EGL applies
the same calibration to hardware cursors, and invalidate the full frame
whenever calibration changes.
Render ImGui to an intermediate SDR framebuffer and map it into the
native PQ or scRGB output using the Wayland surface reference white.
Preserve premultiplied alpha during conversion and limit composition to
damaged overlay regions.
The new configuration option `input:evdev` accepts a comma separated
list of `/dev/input/` keyboard devices to use for input when in capture
mode. This makes it possible to capture only a specific keyboard instead
of all keyboards.
This change alters the small square dot cursor to a more visible 16x16
cursor for X11. A new option `spice:largeDotCursor` can be set to use an
alternative 32x32 cursor for the vision impaired.
