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Graphics: XWayland/Wayland, Vulkan, LunarG and AMD

Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Saturday 21st of December 2019 05:00:18 PM Filed under
Graphics/Benchmarks
  • XWayland Gets Tidied Up Ahead Of The Holidays For The Eventual X.Org Server 1.21

    Sadly there still is no release plan for getting the long overdue X.Org Server 1.21 out the door and at this point is looking increasingly unlikely that it would land for Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. But at least this extra time for X.Org Server 1.21 has allowed more XWayland changes to flow in.

    There has been recent XWayland work like multi-buffering, other stuttering issues, RandR/Vidmode emulation, and a variety of other enhancements.

  • Wayland's Weston 8.0 Reaches Beta With Direct-Display Extension, Partial Updates, HDCP

    Following the Weston 8.0 Alpha release from earlier this month, the Weston 8.0 Beta is now available for this reference Wayland compositor.

    Weston 8.0 features include items like handling EGL partial screen updates, a direct display extension in conjunction with DMA-BUF buffers being submitted directly to the display controller, HDCP support is now wired into the Direct Rendering Manager back-end, XYUV format support with OpenGL, the ability to double-load Weston modules, support for using OpenGL rendering with the head-less back-end, and many other changes.

  • [ANNOUNCE] weston 7.0.92
    This is the beta release for weston 8.0.0. Full commit history below.

Daniel Stone (1):
      CI: Bump ci-templates dependency for working pip

Emmanuel Gil Peyrot (2):
      backend-drm: Remove unused variable
      backend-drm: Make boolean fields actually bool

Leandro Ribeiro (3):
      clients/window: drop support for rgb565
      screen-share: define variable type before using as function argument
      backend-rdp: report a zero physical size to compositor

Marius Vlad (1):
      clients/simple-dmabuf-egl: Add some notes when using direct-display

Michael Forney (1):
      clients/presentation-shm: Add missing dependency on xdg-shell protocol

Pekka Paalanen (8):
      xwm: add newline to cardinal array
      xwm: debug _XWAYLAND_ALLOW_COMMITS
      xwm: debug what kind decoration is drawn
      xwm: xcb_configure_window() takes uint16_t
      xwm: debug ConfigureWindow
      gitlab-ci: image build should fail on failed commands
      gitlab-ci: wrap and alphabetize apt-get line
      gitlab-ci: install xwayland

Simon Ser (1):
      build: bump to version 7.0.92 for the beta release

Stefan Agner (2):
      renderer: change all frame_signal emission to pass previous_damage
      backend-drm: Define potentially missing aspect-ratio bit definitions

git tag: 7.0.92
  • Vulkan 1.1.130 SDK Released - GFX Reconstruct Continues Path To Replace Vktrace/Vkreplay

    LunarG on Friday released the Vulkan SDK 1.1.130 version with an updated license, better validation layer coverage, and support for newer extensions.

    Newer Vulkan extensions now supported include VK_EXT_tooling_info, VK_KHR_buffer_device_address, VK_KHR_performance_query, and VK_KHR_separate_depth_stencil_layouts.

  • LunarG Releases New SDKs for Vulkan

    LunarG has released new Vulkan SDKs for Windows, Linux, and macOS based on the 1.1.130.0 header. This release includes maintenance updates, the latest extensions, and a link to the new Vulkan License Registry.

    [...]

    The vktrace and vkreplay tools currently included in this SDK will be removed in the next 3-6 months. It will be replaced with GFX Reconstruct. Vktrace/vkreplay will still be available via a github repository but will not be included in future SDKs.

  • Radeon ROCm 3.0 Released With LLVM "AOMP" For Radeon OpenMP, FFT Updates

    Announced last month at SuperComputing 19 in Denver was Radeon Open Compute 3.0 (ROCm 3.0) but it didn't end up shipping until last night. ROCm 3.0 is a big update to AMD's open-source Linux compute stack for ending out 2019.

  • Gallium3D's LLVMpipe Lands NIR Support Plus Radeon R600g NIR Support Is Forthcoming

    More Mesa drivers continue to be embracing NIR as the modern intermediate representation shared between these OpenGL and Vulkan open-source implementations.

    Besides the Intel drivers leading the NIR transition along with smaller drivers like Freedreno and VC4, RADV has been making use of NIR and now RadeonSI is working on transitioning to it while TGSI currently remains the default. The LLVMpipe Gallium3D software rasterizer is the newest in-tree Mesa driver making use of this IR.

    With commits that were merged over night for Mesa 20.0-devel, NIR is now a supported intermediate representation alongside TGSI for this driver that commonly serves as an OpenGL fallback driver on the Linux desktop.

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