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Schedule: Roadmap to recovery - pain and redemption in X driver development

Speakers
Keith Packard
Schedule
Day Sunday
Room H.2213
Start time 17:00
End time 18:00
Duration 01:00
Info
Event type Podium
Track X.org
Language English
Roadmap to recovery - pain and redemption in X driver development

This talk will showcase a driver that satisfies the requirements of the kernel, X and desktop communities and offers new levels of functionality and performance.

Over the last several years, we've proposed dozens of potential architectures for support of graphics devices in a Linux environment. They have ranged from utterly lame to completely impractical, with only a few showing any potential at all. While this has taken a huge amount of time and energy, it looks to be finally coming to some kind of reasonable resolution.