XDS 2008, With Input & GL Happiness Days

Posted by Michael Larabel on September 02, 2008

There's just about thirteen hours until the 2008 X Developers' Summit gets underway at the Edinburgh Zoo in Scotland. While attendance is low and the program was just getting thrown together at the last minute, it looks like everything will work out.


This three day X.Org summit will kick off with the "input" day tomorrow that covers various aspects of X.Org input mechanisms. There will be an overview talk by the Multi-Point X mastermind, Peter Hutterer, and a pointer acceleration talk by Simon Thum (X.Org very recently received Predictable Pointer Acceleration). Covering tomorrow afternoon are talks on improving input latency, run-time GPU power management (not exactly to do with input), and live X Input 2 specification drafting.


The second day of XDS 2008 is what Daniel Stone describes as the "GL-related happiness" day. Tungsten Graphics will be providing a new status update on their Gallium 3D architecture (their Q1'08 status update), a talk about Gallium 3D with Intel 915 hardware, and DRI2 version 2 (the revised DRI2 design following the fallout from the TTM dependences with the original design) to take up the morning. In the afternoon there will be a talk on kernel mode-setting for ATI Radeon hardware, an OpenGL 3.0 talk, and another form of an OpenGL talk is also planned.


The third and final day of XDS 2008 is planned to be just a mix of other uncovered topics. During this time will be Red Hat's Plymouth, Intel graphics testing, an Intel Keith Packard talk, and ending out the day we may just see the release of X.Org 7.4 / X Server 1.5, which is long overdue. Well, the Wiki-based schedule says "Lock doors, no-one leaves until 7.5 released", but that's really for X.Org 7.4 unless they intend everyone to live at the Edinburgh Zoo until the middle of 2009 when X.Org 7.5 will perhaps be ready.

Discuss this article in our forums, IRC channel, or email the author. You can also follow our content via RSS and on social networks like Facebook, Identi.ca, and Twitter (@Phoronix and @MichaelLarabel). Subscribe to Phoronix Premium to view our content without advertisements, view entire articles on a single page, and experience other benefits.
Latest Hardware Reviews
  1. Intel Haswell HD Graphics 4600 vs. AMD Radeon Graphics On Linux
  2. Intel Haswell HD Graphics 4600 Performance On Ubuntu Linux
  3. Intel Core i7 4770K "Haswell" Benchmarks On Ubuntu Linux
  4. The First Experience Of Intel Haswell On Linux
Latest Software Articles
  1. Optimized Binaries Provide Great Benefits For Intel Haswell
  2. 11-Way Linux, BSD Platform Comparison
  3. SNA Acceleration Works Great For Intel Core i7 Haswell
  4. The Linux Evolution For Intel Haswell's Performance
Latest Linux News
  1. KDE's KWin Made Lots Of Progress In 4.11
  2. Ubuntu Announces Carrier Advisory Group
  3. Qt 5.1 Release Candidate 1 Has Arrived
  4. In-Fighting Continues Over Mir On Non-Unity Ubuntu
  5. Subversion 1.8 Presents New Features
  6. LLVM 3.3 Officially Released
  7. LLVM/Clang Now Uses Loop Vectorizer At New Levels
  8. Intel GPU Driver Tries To Rip Out FBDEV Support
  9. Coreboot Doing AMD USB 3.0, Q35 QEMU Emulation
  10. VP9 Codec Now Enabled By Default In Chrome
  11. openSUSE 13.1 M2 Plays On PulseAudio 4.0
Latest Forum Talk
  1. KDE's KWin Made Lots Of Progress In 4.11
  2. In-Fighting Continues Over Mir On Non-Unity Ubuntu
  3. Planetary Annihilation Plans To Come To Linux
  4. Intel GPU Driver Tries To Rip Out FBDEV Support
  5. Ubuntu Announces Carrier Advisory Group
  6. VP9 Codec Now Enabled By Default In Chrome
  1. Computers
  2. Display Drivers
  3. Graphics Cards
  4. Motherboards
  5. Peripherals
  6. Processors
  7. Software
  8. Operating Systems
  9. All Articles
  1. Linux Benchmarking
  2. OpenBenchmarking.org
  3. Phoronix Test Suite