display/

This directory is the implementation of the Display Compositor.

The Display Compositor combines frames submitted to the viz service through frame sinks, and combines them into a single gpu or software resource to be presented to the user.

This directory is agnostic w.r.t. platform-specific presentation details, which are abstracted behind OutputSurface and SoftwareOutputDevice. Through these APIs, it supports either compositing gpu resources (textures) into a single texture/framebuffer, or software resources (bitmaps) into a single bitmap. Note that the platform specific implementations details should live outside of display/ (for example, they can live in display_embedder/ instead).

To understand surface and surface aggregation better, please refer to Surface and Surface Aggregation slides.