Cleaning Up The Linux Graphics Driver Stack

[stan]

Talent gone to waste

Luc is a talented coder for hardware drivers, but unfortunately his work doesn't get into distro user's hands often because of his penchant to fork projects. The forks end up abandoned by everyone else (unichrome and radeonhd come to mind), probably because of his inflexible attitude (it's his way or the highway). He'd make a much bigger impact if he learned to coordinate with other FOSS programmers (we're all on the same team!) and accept some compromises.

[Michael]

I am deeply impressed by the "unichrome" slide. I think it's urgent to handle this issue. The 3 parts had never been fixed together seamlessly in every distributions. Nearly every update of one component causes more or less regressions, especially for a cutting-edge distro user like me.(Archlinux)

Nothing is likely to change... It was basically discounted by other developers as either something tried and didn't work, don't care it's a problem, Unichrome is totally different from -intel, all we care about are features and performance, etc.

[leeyee]

I am deeply impressed by the "unichrome" slide. I think it's urgent to handle this issue. The 3 parts had never been fixed together seamlessly in every distributions. Nearly every update of one component causes more or less regressions, especially for a cutting-edge distro user like me.(Archlinux)

[MartjeB]

PDF: click here. I'm really eager for this video .

[Michael]

This by far has been the most heated talk at X@FOSDEM in recent years... Video coming soon as a 3GB HD video upload goes through...

[rohcQaH]

they're just the slides without the actual talk. Hopefully it'll be clear once the videos arrive..

[xeros]

It doesn't look clear. I don't get anything from the diagrams... What's that for and what they want to achieve?

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Cleaning Up The Linux Graphics Driver Stack

Yesterday Luc Verhaegen gave a talk at FOSDEM on reverse engineering a motherboard BIOS, but today we finally have X@FOSDEM for the last time. Luc has just begun his talk on unifying and simplifying the free software desktop's graphics driver stack. Here are his slides and we will be back with more updates and videos on Phoronix as the presentation progresses.

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=14572