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Wednesday, April 6 • 10:00am - 10:50am
Atomic Display Support in Upstream - Daniel Vetter, Intel

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Atomic display update support has finally landed in the upstream DRM graphics kernel subsystem and a bunch of drivers are converted or in the process of being converted. This talk will look at the internals from a driver's writer point of view, covering the atomic helper library, how it all can be (ab)used for certain cases and how to implement certain common hardware features. It will also look a bit at the overall ecosystem like upstream atomic support in Android, CrOS and wayland - and why upstream atomic is really the new display API to rule them all, plus take a look at what's still being worked on for the near future.

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Daniel Vetter

Cloud Engineer, Intel
Currently I work at Intel’s Linux Cloud SE group, mostly creating havoc in kernel driver’s given my more than a decade of work in the graphics subsystem. I’m also co-maintaining the graphics subsystem. I also have been drm/i915 kernel maintainer for a few years, but handed that... Read More →


Wednesday April 6, 2016 10:00am - 10:50am PDT
Harbor Ballroom G