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On Linux builds with Vulkan, WebContent already paints into GPU-backed Skia surfaces, but the backing store shared with the UI process was still a CPU ShareableBitmap. That forced every flush to read the GPU image back into a bitmap so the UI could sample it, defeating most of the benefit of GPU painting. Teach SharedImage to carry a LinuxDmaBufHandle alongside ShareableBitmap as a Variant, with a tagged IPC encoding and an fd clone on encode so both processes own an independent handle. When USE_VULKAN_DMABUF_IMAGES is enabled, BackingStoreManager now allocates the front/back buffers as linear-modifier Vulkan images and publishes their dmabuf fds to the UI; the Skia painting surfaces wrap those Vulkan images directly, so no readback is needed. The old shareable-bitmap path is preserved as a fallback for the non-Vulkan case and when image creation fails. On the receive side, SharedImageBuffer::import_from_shared_image mmaps a linear dmabuf to reconstruct a CPU Bitmap, keeping existing consumers that expect CPU access working unchanged. VulkanImage memory type selection is factored into a small helper, and linear images now request host-visible (cached if available) memory rather than device-local, since a linear dmabuf has to be CPU-mappable on the importer side. |
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Ladybird
Ladybird is a truly independent web browser, using a novel engine based on web standards.
Important
Ladybird is in a pre-alpha state, and only suitable for use by developers
Features
We aim to build a complete, usable browser for the modern web.
Ladybird uses a multi-process architecture with a main UI process, several WebContent renderer processes, an ImageDecoder process, and a RequestServer process.
Image decoding and network connections are done out of process to be more robust against malicious content. Each tab has its own renderer process, which is sandboxed from the rest of the system.
At the moment, many core library support components are inherited from SerenityOS:
- LibWeb: Web rendering engine
- LibJS: JavaScript engine
- LibWasm: WebAssembly implementation
- LibCrypto/LibTLS: Cryptography primitives and Transport Layer Security
- LibHTTP: HTTP/1.1 client
- LibGfx: 2D Graphics Library, Image Decoding and Rendering
- LibUnicode: Unicode and locale support
- LibMedia: Audio and video playback
- LibCore: Event loop, OS abstraction layer
- LibIPC: Inter-process communication
How do I build and run this?
See build instructions for information on how to build Ladybird.
Ladybird runs on Linux, macOS, Windows (with WSL2), and many other *Nixes.
How do I read the documentation?
Code-related documentation can be found in the documentation folder.
Get in touch and participate!
Join our Discord server to participate in development discussion.
Please read Getting started contributing if you plan to contribute to Ladybird for the first time.
Before opening an issue, please see the issue policy and the detailed issue-reporting guidelines.
The full contribution guidelines can be found in CONTRIBUTING.md.
License
Ladybird is licensed under a 2-clause BSD license.