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virgil3d: design document and sorta build instructions 26 Jul 2013 | 09:06 am
I've published on Google docs a bit more of a technical document on how virgil3d is designed. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1cL2sEi5DAd-qY_OzyNiUyIbcU2ZvcI8lhv3PWzFoH_w/pub I'm hoping to flesh ...
Introducing Virgil - 3D virtual GPU for qemu 18 Jul 2013 | 08:51 am
Virgil is a research project I've been working on at Red Hat for a few months now and I think is ready for at least announcing upstream and seeing if there is any developer interest in the community i...
on open source development and disagreements 30 Mar 2013 | 12:08 pm
So I've been involved in a recent dispute on the wayland project, with a person I'd classify as a poisonous person. Basically a contributor who was doing more damage than good, and was causing unneede...
its a bird, is it a space station? no its a display server 5 Mar 2013 | 01:32 pm
[update: Mir page removed most of the reasons Wayland wasn't suitable, so why did they not use wayland again?] [update: still my opinion, really, nobody is making me say shit, lwn commenters really li...
reverse optimus implementation 7 Jan 2013 | 11:02 am
So I took some time today to try and code up a thing I call reverse optimus. Optimus laptops come in a lot of flavours, but one annoying one is where the LVDS/eDP panel is only connected to the Intel...
rasberry pi drivers are NOT useful 25 Oct 2012 | 01:51 am
So I awake to find an announcement that the userspace drivers for the rPI have been released, lots of people cheering, but really what they've released is totally useless to anyone who uses or develop...
randr 1.5 demo videos 19 Jun 2012 | 09:36 pm
Two videoes on youtube: Randr 1.5 GPU offload: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEUKuNTRp78 Randr 1.5 USB hotplug http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoUNsbFmxS0
ripping the X server a new driver API 15 May 2012 | 05:05 am
So I've been slowly writing the hotplug support v3 in between all the real jobs I have to do. [side note: When I started out on hotplug. one of my goals was to avoid changing the server API/ABI too m...
update on hotplug server 23 Dec 2011 | 07:28 am
No new videos yet, need to fix some more rendering bugs so it looks nicer :) So I've been working towards 3 setups: a) intel rendering + nouveau offload b) nouveau rendering + DVI output + intel LVD...
hotplug demo video (teaching X.org new tricks). 21 Oct 2011 | 11:15 pm
So today I managed to see something on screen doing X.org hotplug work. So I present to you live X.org plugging. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g54y80blzRU Pretty much is a laptop running xf86-video...
