Melissa Wen and Mike Blumenkrantz on Graphics Code
-
Melissa Wen: Reflections on 2024 Linux Display Next Hackfest
Hey everyone!
The 2024 Linux Display Next hackfest concluded in May, and its outcomes continue to shape the Linux Display stack. Igalia hosted this year’s event in A Coruña, Spain, bringing together leading experts in the field. Samuel Iglesias and I organized this year’s edition and this blog post summarizes the experience and its fruits.
-
Mike Blumenkrantz: Gettin Nacky
Rejection
It’s hard. Nobody likes that feeling, especially after putting in a bunch of work, double-especially when that work is on a Wayland protocol.
That’s right, the target of today’s wayland-protocols governance update: NACKs.
A NACK is intended to mean something like:
-
Mike Blumenkrantz: Device Generated Commands
Big.
While other development has been progressing, in the background I’ve been working on something big. Now, finally, I can talk about it.
VK_EXT_device_generated_commands is a new extension which, it’s no exageration to say, is the biggest thing Vulkan has shipped since ray-tracing. I had the privilege of working with people across the industry while driving it, from both desktop and mobile hardware vendors, and despite it being EXT, we’re going to see some truly broad adoption here.
Big shoutout to Patrick Doane, formerly of Activision-Blizzard and now (I think) at Deviation Games, for kickstarting this many years ago. Thanks for your work. I hope you’re satisfied with the final product.