Graphics, mode setting and Wayland track

Thursday, August 20, 2015 from 9:30amNoon
Metropolitan A
 

Although the Year of the Linux Desktop has yet to arrive, Linux
graphics support continues to be critically important for a great many
users. Automotive, smartphones, digital signage, smart TVs, and more,
have come to rely on our display stack. This microconference will cover
a number of topics including atomic mdoesetting in KMS, buffer
allocation, verified-secure graphics pipelines, fencing and
synchronisation, Wayland, and more.

Microconference Leader

Daniel Stone

Proposals for this track

* Gap between Atomic Modesetting / KMS and ADF

Looking at the KMS atomic modesetting API and examining the feature gap to Android's ADF
Graphics, mode setting and Wayland 07/01/2015
Daniel Vetter, Rob Clark

* HWComposer in Weston - need for a pluggable composition accelerator

Accelerating composition in Weston through dedicated HWAs (slides)
Graphics, mode setting and Wayland 06/18/2015
Anand Balagopalakrishnan

* ION Feature Upstreaming: Issues that remain

Working towards a common generic display-capable buffer allocation API (slides)
Graphics, mode setting and Wayland 07/01/2015
Sumit Semwal

* Live sources and sinks in KMS

Support for live/stream-based sources and sinks within KMS
Graphics, mode setting and Wayland 07/01/2015
Laurent Pinchart

* State of Wayland

Quick overview of the development status of Wayland and Weston. (slides)
Graphics, mode setting and Wayland 08/13/2015
Bryce Harrington