X.Org Developer's Conference 2019

Session

Workshop

2 Oct 2019, 12:40

Concordia University Conference Centre

80. Let's make KMS planes useful for compositors

02/10/2019, 12:40

Some DRM drivers have been exposing overlay planes for quite some time. Overlay planes can improve battery consumption by scanning out directly client buffers, skipping composition. While compositors usually take advantage of the cursor plane (and sometimes are able to use the primary plane to scan out directly a client's buffer), overlay planes are under-used.

The exception is Weston, which...

84. mediump breakout session

03/10/2019, 09:55

breakout session to continue mediump discussion

79. Mesa CI: Next Steps

Tomeu Vizoso (Collabora), Martin Peres

03/10/2019, 15:45

Since XDC 2018, substantial progress has been made towards automated testing of Mesa. Lots remains to be done and in this session we will be able to discuss existing proposals and problems.

77. Cameras and Displays: how much can we share?

Gustavo Padovan (Collabora), Laurent Pinchart (Ideas on Board)

04/10/2019, 09:00

There are similarities between Camera and Display. On how they work and how we interact with them. For example, both need an Atomic API, share the same buffer formats and need features like explicit fences. On the other hand cameras are much more complex devices where many cameras have very special and unique needs. We want to improve the camera support in Linux and their interoperability with...

86. Allocator discussion

James Jones (NVIDIA)

04/10/2019, 10:30