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XBMC Will Gain Full Wayland Support Before Mir

XBMC developer smspillaz, the man responsible for the XBMC Weston hack a few months ago, is now rounding the final turns towards XBMC being fully compatible with Wayland. smspillaz reports that he will be doing a GSoC this year to move XBMC completely to Wayland???without the use of SDL. He writes… …By far the most interesting part of this post is smspillaz mention that once this work is complete it ???perhaps could be expanded to support other display systems like Mir and direct display on the framebuffer via kms/gbm.???

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