Graphics Work by Alejandro Piñeiro and Simon Ser

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jan 16, 2023

• Alejandro Piñeiro: v3dv status update 2023-01

  We haven’t posted updates to the work done on the V3DV driver since we announced the driver becoming Vulkan 1.2 Conformant

  But after reaching that milestone, we’ve been very busy working on more improvements, so let’s summarize the work done since then.

• Simon Ser: Status update, January 2023 · emersion

  This month’s status update will be lighter than usual: I’ve been on leave for a while at the end of December. To make up for this, I have some big news: we’ve released Sway 1.8! This brings a whole lot of improvements from wlroots 0.16, as well as some nice smaller additions to Sway itself. We’re still working on fixing up a few regressions, so I’ll probably release wlroots 0.16.2 soon-ish.

  Together with Sebastian Wick we’ve plumbed support for more data blocks to libdisplay-info. We now support everything in the base EDID block! We’re filling the gaps in our CTA-861 implementation, and we’re getting ready to release version 0.1.0. As expected EDID blobs continue to have many fields packed in creative ways, duplicating information and contradicting each other, ill-defined in many specifications and vendor-specific formats.

  I’ve continued working on the goguma Android IRC client. I’ve wired up automatic bug reporting via GlitchTip – this helps a lot because grabbing logs from Android is much more complicated than it needs to be. Thanks to the bug dashboard I’ve fixed numerous crashes. I’ve also sent upstream a fix for unreliable notifications when UnifiedPush is used.