Project Lighthouse

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Lighthouse turns Qt for Embedded Linux into a window-system‑agnostic GUI by adding a plugin-based QPlatformIntegration that loads backends at runtime. It ships backends for directfb, X11, VNC, an full-screen EGL backend for Tegra, and a Wayland plugin already available; enabling GL on Tegra takes minutes in practice. Lighthouse removes the old multiprocess qws support, keeps one-surface rendering (no full native-child-widget model), and exposes QWindowSurface/QPlatformWindow/QPixmapData/QPlatformScreen hooks — demos run and a merge request targets Qt 4.8.

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1. 0:00Intro
2. 0:54About me
3. 1:47Agenda
4. 2:14Trends in Embedded Linux
5. 4:00Hardware acceleration
6. 5:30Embedded Linux
7. 6:22QSS
8. 7:30Qt Embedded Linux
9. 9:29Lighthouse
10. 10:15What is Lighthouse
11. 11:01Crossplatform development
12. 12:20Plugins
13. 15:05Qt Graphic System
14. 16:10Qt Platform Integration
15. 19:08Qt pixmap
16. 20:35Qt web data
17. 21:38Qt minimal
18. 22:52Platform window
19. 23:53GL context
20. 26:28QPlatformScreen
21. 27:16Demo
22. 28:55Wolfen
23. 40:45Questions
24. 44:55Requirements
25. 50:31Fullscreen
26. 53:20Window System
27. 54:08Qt Build System
28. 57:12Reusing Qt Build System

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