If you missed my #XDC2024 talk about Device-Generated Commands in #Vulkan, you can find the embedded video, slides and transcription here https://rg3.name/202411181555.html /cc @igalia

At #xdc2024, @1ace and I demoed the bare-metal CI infrastructure we have been developing to improve the quality of open source graphics drivers.

In about 5 minutes, we've assembled, auto-discovered, and exposed to Gitlab CI a Steam Deck, a Raspberry Pi 5, a Vision Five 2 (RISCV64), and an HDK8550 (Qualcomm / Android).

The Steam Deck ended up executing the VKD3D-proton test suite, while the RPi5 ran a small portion of Vulkan's conformance tests.

Check it out at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Y19nlF133w&list=PLe6I3NKr-I4KrrmHtTkhIb3wn2o_mWqKq&index=10

#XDC2024: The individual videos for each talk from this year's XDC are now available on our YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/xorgfoundation

Ah yes... the first "recruiter" scam email arrived today offering a graphics related job in Canada #xdc2024

Last Friday we said goodbye to #XDC2024. Big thanks to the X.Org Foundation, the organizers, the sponsors and everyone who came to talk to us during the conference! See you next year in Vienna!

mhh, I should fetch something to eat Somebody still around in Montreal? #xdc2024

Is it just me or there isn't a single #mask in sight in all the #XDC2024 photos? Are we trying to off the entire Linux graphics stack development in one go or something?

On Friday, the #xdc2024 was full of discussions around the Linux Display stack with the Display/KMS meeting and the Wayland workshop.

At the 3-hour Display/KMS meeting, led by Siqueira and myself, participants shared knowledge and opinions on: creating a driver shared between V4L2 and DRM (Laurent Pinchart), real-time scheduling (Jonas Adahl), display Mux (Daniel Dadap), HDR/color mgmt (Xaver/Harry/me), better failure feedback (Xaver).

Thanks all participants for your contributions.

Thank you everyone for an amazing #xdc2024

#xdc2024 is a wrap. Didn’t know what to expect when I went. It was fun and I’m glad I did it, and that it was close enough to travel to. It was also my first time in Montréal, so I had lots of fun exploring.

I am still very amused at the notion of compositor developers having zero perspective of what users want to do with their computers.

Excluding me apparently never having been a user and these days obviously only living in a terminal and maybe an IDE…

… do you actually think anybody knowledgeable in something IT-related is not getting bombarded by family and friends with “computer questions”?

Jokes aside, while there is fun in designing an esoteric or potentially optimal solution, I want to build something genuinely useful for people. And I think most compositor developers will share that statement.

(Context: The #wayland workshop at #XDC2024. )

Last day of XDC 2024! Thanks to all the presenters, and to everyone that attended the conference!

Last day of #XDC2024 in Montreal. Today our colleague @melissa will be heading the Display/KMS meeting together with Rodrigo Siqueira. Don't miss it! Full schedule here: https://indico.freedesktop.org/event/6/timetable/#20241011.detailed

Day 2 at #XDC2024 in Montréal has begun with a packed room for Alyssa Rosenzweig's latest update on the Apple #M1! Watch live here: https://youtube.com/live/pDsksRBLXPk #OpenSource #Vulkan

Day 2 of #XDC2024 in Montreal! The lightning talks block at 16:45 includes two talks by Igalians: "etnaviv status update" with @austriancoder and "Device-Generated Commands in Vulkan" with @rg3 Full schedule: https://indico.freedesktop.org/event/6/timetable/#20241010.detailed Live streams: https://www.youtube.com/@XOrgFoundation/streams

I'll be presenting at #XDC2024 "Enhancements to the #RaspberryPi GPU driver stack" showcasing the work we did during last year at @igalia to improve the GPU driver stack. You can follow it at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0MP9-hFUZE

After two packed days of #GStConf2024, the freedesktop week in Montréal continues with #XDC2024 about to take the stage! Live stream begins at 9:00 a.m. EDT today! Join us! https://youtube.com/live/d0MP9-hFUZE

Today at XDC 2024, my colleague @1ace from the Core team is going to co-host with Martin Roukala a demo on adding test machines to a CI-Tron instance: https://indico.freedesktop.org/event/6/contributions/301/

Live stream at: https://www.youtube.com/@XOrgFoundation/streams

Make sure to attend!