Chris Wilson is an Intel Open-Source Technology Center employee responsible for much of the work on Cairo along with the xf86-video-intel DDX driver and its Sandy Bridge New Acceleration (SNA) architecture.

Chris Wilson Articles & Reviews

Intel SNA Ivy Bridge - September 2012   Display Drivers   2012-09-04
Intel SNA Performance Continues To Be Compelling   Display Drivers   2012-07-28
Intel SNA With Unity, Unity 2D & GNOME Shell   Display Drivers   2011-09-11

Chris Wilson Linux & Open-Source News

That Linux 5.12 Severe Data Corruption Bug Hits Intel CI Systems - Issue Caused By Swap File   Linux Kernel   2021-03-02
Intel Graphics Driver Low-Latency Scheduling Revived For A Smoother UX   Intel   2021-02-02
56 Patches Volleyed For Improving Intel Linux Graphics Driver Scheduling   Intel   2020-12-29
The xf86-video-intel Zombie Driver Finally Flips On TearFree To Avoid Tearing   Intel   2020-12-18
Intel Workaround For Graphics Driver Regression: "The Platform Problem Going Crazy"   Intel   2020-08-05
Intel Linux Graphics Driver Scheduling Improvements In The Works   Intel   2020-07-15
Intel Graphics Driver Sees Fair Low-Latency Scheduling Inspired In Part By BFS/MuQSS   Intel   2020-06-08
Linux 5.7-rc1 Marks More Than 915k Commits, 28.4 Million Lines In Source Tree   Linux Kernel   2020-04-13
Whoops, Linux 5.5 Missed Some "Critical" Intel Graphics Driver Patches   Intel   2020-02-12
The Linux Kernel Enters 2020 At 27.8 Million Lines In Git But With Less Developers For 2019   Linux Kernel   2020-01-01
Intel Linux Graphics Driver Patches For Fast Soft-RC6 Yield Big Energy Use Improvement   Intel   2019-11-19
Intel To Try Flipping IOMMU On By Default For Linux Graphics   Intel   2019-09-09
Intel's Iris Gallium3D Driver Working On Better GPU Recovery Handling   Intel   2019-03-25
Intel's OpenGL Mesa Driver To Better Handle Recovery In Case Of GPU Hangs   Intel   2019-02-15
The Linux Kernel Ends 2018 With Almost 75k Commits This Year   Linux Kernel   2018-12-31
Intel Iris Gallium3D Open-Source Driver Continues Speeding Along   Intel   2018-11-27
The Linux Kernel Has Grown By 225k Lines of Code So Far This Year From 3.3k Developers   Linux Kernel   2018-09-16
Linux Games/Apps Might Get Greater Control Over GPU Frequency On Intel Hardware   Intel   2018-03-15
Wayland's Weston Gets Patch For High Priority GPU Support   Wayland   2018-03-01
xf86-video-intel Gets Coffee Lake Support   Intel   2018-01-11
The Linux Kernel Gained 2.5 Million Lines Of Code, 71k Commits In 2017   Linux Kernel   2018-01-01
Intel Ironlake Receives Patches For RC6 Power Savings   Intel   2017-11-19
Intel Wires In EGL Context Priority Support For Their Mesa Driver   Mesa   2017-10-20
Git Statistics Showing The Rate Of Change For Linux 4.12 Development   Linux Kernel   2017-05-14
Little Perf Improvements & User-Defined Priority Scheduling For Intel's DRM Driver   Intel   2017-04-19
Linux 4.10-rc1 Gained 488k Lines, Kernel Up 1.9+ Million Lines For 2016   Linux Kernel   2016-12-26
The Linux 4.9 Kernel Is Around 22.3 Million Lines   Linux Kernel   2016-12-11
A Priority Scheduler Is Being Worked On For Intel's DRM Driver   Intel   2016-11-02
Intel Sends In A Second Batch Of Graphics Driver Updates For Linux 4.9   Intel   2016-08-24
Intel's X.Org Driver Still Being Developed, No Sign Of 3.0 Released   Intel   2016-08-02
Video & Input Driver ABIs Will Change Again For X.Org Server 1.19   X.Org   2016-07-20
Intel's 3.0 X.Org Driver Has Now Been In Development For Two Years   Intel   2015-09-07
SNA Is Four Years Old - Intel's 3.0 X.Org Driver Still Unreleased   Intel   2015-06-09
Intel Works On Page-Flipping For The Mode-Setting Driver   X.Org   2015-04-22
70 Intel DRM Linux Kernel Patches Bring Some Performance Optimizations   Intel   2015-04-07
Intel X.Org Driver Enables Render-Nodes By Default For DRI3   Intel   2015-02-10
Intel Has A Few More Graphics Changes For The Linux 3.20 Kernel   Intel   2015-01-24
GLX_EXT_buffer_age Patches For Mesa DRI2   Mesa   2015-01-21
Intel 2.99.917 X.Org Driver Released, 3.0 Release Finally Near   Intel   2014-12-21
Skylake Support Added To Intel's X.Org Driver   X.Org   2014-09-26
Intel's 3.0 X.Org Driver Takes Another Step Closer To Release   Intel   2014-09-08
Intel 3.0 X.Org Driver Still Baking, New Development Release   Intel   2014-07-23
Intel Linux Driver Trying Bay Trail Aggressive Downclocking   Intel   2014-07-03
Intel X.Org Gets DRI3+Present, Variable Cursor Sizes, Improved DRI2   Intel   2014-06-10
DRI3 & Present Support Finally Land Within Intel's Driver   X.Org   2014-06-02
Intel Frame-Buffer Compression Still Not On By Default   Intel   2014-03-25
Intel Still Polishing Their 3.0 X.Org Graphics Driver   Intel   2014-02-10
Pre-3.0 Intel X.Org Driver Gets More Fixings   Intel   2014-02-01
Intel X.Org Driver Gets Fixes, Broadwell Acceleration   Intel   2013-12-30
Intel Broadwell Support Commited To X.Org Driver   Intel   2013-12-11
Intel X.Org Driver Released With New Stability Fixes   Intel   2013-11-13
Intel X.Org Driver Now Handles Better Tear-Free   Intel   2013-10-23
Intel X.Org 3.0 Driver To Get One More Feature   Intel   2013-10-09
GLAMOR'ized Radeon Driver Shows Hope Over EXA   Radeon   2013-10-03
SNA Continues To Be Far Better Than UXA, GLAMOR   Intel   2013-10-01
Intel Steps Closer To 3.0 X.Org Driver Release   Intel   2013-09-29
Intel Reverts Plans, Will Not Support Ubuntu's XMir   Intel   2013-09-07
Intel 3.0 Linux Driver To Enable SNA, Support XMir   Intel   2013-09-04
Linux 3.12 Enables Haswell's Iris eLLC Cache Support   Intel   2013-09-02
Intel Driver Gains Virtual/Remote Output Support   Intel   2013-08-31
Cairo 1.12.16 Takes Care A Whole Lot Of Bugs   Intel   2013-08-26
Intel DDX Gains Experimental Render Node Support   Intel   2013-08-24
Intel 2.21.15 X.Org Driver Has PRIME, BSD Fixes   Intel   2013-08-21
Intel Driver Receives Haswell GT3e Performance Tuning   Intel   2013-08-04
Intel 2.21.13 Driver Fixes Performance Regressions   Intel   2013-07-28
Intel Haswell On Linux: Updated SNA vs. UXA 2D Tests   Intel   2013-07-19
Intel X.Org Driver Offers Various Improvements   Intel   2013-07-14
Intel 2.21.11 Driver Works On Fastboot, Bug Fixes   Intel   2013-07-01
Intel Driver Gets More Fixes, Performance Tweaks   Intel   2013-06-22
Intel 2.21.9 X.Org Driver Calls Out More Regressions   Intel   2013-06-06
Intel Ivy Bridge: UXA vs. SNA - Updated Benchmarks   Intel   2013-05-29
Intel 2.21.8 Driver Takes Care Of COW Regressions   Intel   2013-05-27
Top Contributors To The Intel Linux DRM Driver   Intel   2013-05-13
Intel Linux Driver Gets Support For New Haswell IDs   Intel   2013-04-27
Intel i915 Gallium3D Driver Might Become The Default   Intel   2013-04-17
Intel 2.21.5 Driver Brings Fixes For Haswell, GLAMOR   Intel   2013-03-21
Intel X.Org Driver Update Gets New Features   X.Org   2013-03-11
SNA Delivers Huge Gains Over UXA For Intel "Gen5"   Intel   2013-02-27
Intel X.Org Driver Gets Hand-Tuning For SSE4, AVX2   Intel   2013-02-26
OpenGL 3.0 Features For Intel Ironlake Unlikely   Mesa   2013-02-23
Intel 2.21.3 X.Org Graphics Driver Released   Intel   2013-02-20
Chris Wilson Begins With Intel 2.21 X.Org Point Releases   Intel   2013-02-10
Development Pace Of X.Org Is On The Decline   X.Org   2013-02-06
Intel 2.21 X.Org Driver Brings Notable Features   Intel   2013-02-02
Multi-Threading Cairo-Image For Better Performance   Intel   2013-01-26
Intel SNA Continues To Be Tweaked   Intel   2013-01-24
Nouveau Can Beat NVIDIA With Cairo In Select Cases   Intel   2013-01-22
Intel Releases Its 19th Driver In The 2.20 Series   Intel   2013-01-20
Intel Driver Update Fixes Performance Regressions   Intel   2013-01-16
Ubuntu Still Deciding About Intel Acceleration Support   Intel   2013-01-09
Intel Still Playing With i830GM/845G Stability   Intel   2012-12-26
2D Support On Old Intel Hardware: Nothing But Misery   Intel   2012-12-17
Intel Finally Delivers Stable i830GM/i845G Driver   Intel   2012-12-15
xf86-video-intel 2.20.15 Takes Care Of More Fixes   X.Org   2012-12-03
Intel Driver Update Improves Old Hardware Support   Intel   2012-11-26
Intel 2.20.13 Driver Update Carries More Bug-Fixes   Intel   2012-11-11
Intel Linux Driver Still Working To Address Tearing   Intel   2012-10-21
Intel X.Org Driver Gets A Number Of Core Bug-Fixes   Intel   2012-10-15
Cairo 1.12.4 Brings Worthwhile Changes   X.Org   2012-10-05
Intel Driver Update Brings Back XvMC, Fixes Bugs   Intel   2012-09-29
Intel Valley View SDV Powers On With X.Org   Intel   2012-09-17
Released Intel Driver Gets PRIME'd For Sharing   Intel   2012-09-08
Ubuntu's Unity Is Also Painful For 2D Performance   Ubuntu   2012-09-05
Intel Puts Out Yet Another 2.20.x DDX Driver   Intel   2012-09-02
Yet Another Intel 2.20.x Graphics Driver Release   Intel   2012-08-26
Intel 2.20.4 X.Org Driver Brings More Fixes   Intel   2012-08-18
GLAMOR 0.5 Delivers Performance Improvements   Intel   2012-08-18
Intel X.Org Update Restores 830GM/845G Acceleration   Intel   2012-08-04
Intel Driver Integrates BRW Assembler   Intel   2012-07-30
Another Intel Linux Graphics Driver Release   Intel   2012-07-27
Intel 2.20.1 X.Org Driver Closes Critical Bugs   Intel   2012-07-23
Running The Radeon Driver With GLAMOR   Radeon   2012-07-22
Intel X.Org Driver Explodes Thanks To Chris Wilson   Intel   2012-07-21
New Intel Driver Takes SNA Accel Mainstream   Intel   2012-07-15
Intel Driver Now Builds SNA Support By Default   Intel   2012-07-12
GLAMOR Radeon Shows 2D Acceleration Promise   Radeon   2012-07-12
SNA Is Doing Well For Vintage Intel Hardware   Intel   2012-06-02
Intel Releases 2.19 X.Org Driver To Fix Bugs   Intel   2012-05-01
Cairo 1.12 Is A Good Performance Story   Free Software   2012-03-31
Intel Remains Confident In Fixed-Up RC6   Intel   2012-03-24
Intel Releases 2.18 X.Org Linux Graphics Driver   Intel   2012-02-24
Intel's Brewing New Linux Graphics Driver Features   Intel   2012-02-05
Plans For X.Org, Wayland At FOSDEM 2012 Are Drawn   Free Software   2012-01-22
Where The Linux 3.3 Kernel Will Come Up Short   Linux Kernel   2012-01-21
Will Intel's Ivy Bridge Be Trouble-Free On Linux?   Intel   2012-01-07
Intel SNA Acceleration Performance On Ironlake   Intel   2011-12-15
Intel Officially Puts Out 2.17 X.Org Driver   Intel   2011-11-16
126 Changes To The Intel Driver + New VA Back-End   Intel   2011-11-13
xf86-video-intel 2.17 Release Candidate   Intel   2011-10-30
Intel Rounds Out Its Ivy Bridge Graphics Driver   Intel   2011-08-09
Intel Driver Is Now Doing Triple-Bufferred Page-Flips   Intel   2011-07-12
Keith Takes Over Maintainership Of Intel DRM   Intel   2011-05-15
xf86-video-intel 2.15 Driver Officially Released   Intel   2011-04-14
30 Patches To Intel's Linux DRM Driver Published   Linux Kernel   2011-04-12
xf86-video-intel 2.15.0 Is About To Come   Intel   2011-03-29
More Performance Comes Out Of Intel Linux SNB   Intel   2011-03-22
Intel Is Readying The xf86-video-intel 2.15 Driver   Intel   2011-03-02
This GLX Patch Can Really Boosts The FPS (~ +60%)   Mesa   2011-01-26
Cairo 1.12 Is Being Prepped With New Capabilities   GNOME   2011-01-24
Intel's Sandy Bridge Driver Is Nearly Ready   Intel   2010-12-10
FreeBSD Will Pay For Some KMS & GEM Love   BSD   2010-10-22
Intel 2.13 X.Org Driver Release Candidate   Intel   2010-09-22
Intel Pulls In ShadowFB Support For KMS   Intel   2010-09-08
Well, There Is No i8xx Fix For Ubuntu 10.10   Ubuntu   2010-09-07
Intel Comes Up With An Alternative To Bringing Back UMS   Intel   2010-08-26
Intel's Patches Proposed For Adding Legacy UMS   Intel   2010-08-25
The Linux 2.6.36-rc2 Kernel Is Out With An Announcement   Linux Kernel   2010-08-22
Intel's GEM-Free UMS Driver Still Doesn't Fix Things   Intel   2010-08-08
Re-Introducing GEM-Free UMS Support In The Intel Driver   Intel   2010-07-21
Intel's X.Org Driver Runs Even Faster Now   Intel   2010-05-31