Microsoft announced at //build2020 that support for GPU hardware acceleration, through virtual GPU, was coming to the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). This support enables Linux applications running in a WSL VM to leverage and share the host GPU through a variety of well-known graphics and compute APIs.
This talk will give an overview of the architecture, all the way from the Windows...
Microsoft announced at //build2020 that support for running Linux GUI applications, X11 and Wayland, was coming to the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). This will give developers choosing to use Windows as their desktop of choice, the ability to run their preferred Linux applications in a unified, integrated and seamless desktop experience.
In this talk we take a deep dive into the...
In this talk I'd like to show how to go beyond per-draw performance counters by using the thread tracing feature on AMD GPUs. This will include instruction-level shader profiling and high frequency streaming performance counters as well as a look at the impact of barriers and other serializing commands.
Memory encryption is an important part of content protection schemes like Widewine L1. This talk will delve into the details of TMZ (Trusted Memory Zone) on AMD GPUs touching on the software implementation details and hardware requirements and limitations that needed to be addressed to support this in the kernel, mesa, and userspace...
A quick talk to give an overview of GSoC/EVoC and XOrg's involvement therein.
The Virtual Kernel Mode Setting (VKMS) driver allows you to test DRM and run X on systems without a physical display, making it a great candidate for running inside a virtual machine for CI purposes. Its development intends to expand the test coverage of DRM, giving graphic developers greater autonomy to verify the subsystem's expected operation and develop new features. However, to enjoy...
I will present a proposal for integrating memory constraints into the Linux graphics software stack, including the kernel, userspace graphics drivers, and windowing systems. Constraints, or properties describing the various limitations imposed by devices with direct access to memory, are the second half of the [prototype allocator design][1] originally proposed at XDC 2017. I will contrast...
Whether it is HPC or gaming, peer to peer DMA is an important part of improving IO throughput and performance on servers and workstations and yet, it has only recently become barely functional on Linux. This talk delves into the history of peer to peer DMA on Linux, why it is so challenging, what the current landscape looks like, and ways we can improve in the future.
ACO is a new compiler backend for AMD GCN/RDNA GPUs, introduced a year ago in summer 2019 as an experimental prototype sponsored by Valve, and has recently become the default compiler backend of RADV (the Mesa Radeon Vulkan driver).
This talk is about our journey of how we evolved the design of ACO as well as the decisions we took along the road towards feature parity with the LLVM backend...
A short status update what happens in etnaviv land right now. Would cover a quick recap about the history, current state, some CI news and whats worked on right now.
Performance counter are somewhat special on Vivante GPUs. It is not possible to read them via cmd stream but only from the CPU/kernel. This needs some extra work in the kernel and the user space.
The final goal is to have per-draw performance counter values for detailed analysis of performance problems and a way to sample performance counters in a cyclic way for perfetto or some kind of...
Most GPUs now have open source drivers, and the trend is for all of them to be treated not as a curiosity, but instead being full-featured and providing an excellent user experience. To further push the open source philosophy, we need to look at the next frontier: Open Source Hardware.
While usual hardware development is prohibitively expensive, reconfigurable hardware (FPGA) is accessible...
EXT_external_objects and EXT_external_objects_fd are groups of OpenGL
extensions that allow OpenGL and Vulkan interoperability. When enabled,
Vulkan allocated resources can be accessed and re-used by OpenGL. This
talk is about the implementation of the extensions in various drivers,
and some common interoperability use cases and examples that have been
added to piglit.
Earlier this year, Khronos released a provisional VK_KHR_ray_tracing extension for HW-accelerated ray-tracing with the Vulkan API. In this talk, Jason will introduce the basics of ray-tracing and give an overview of the new shader stages, objects, and other concepts used to accelerate ray-tracing via the new Vulkan extension. The talk will be educational and focus on helping others in the...
Well, gaming enthusiasts might have tried baking their graphics card while tinkering with their old graphics hardware but doing so is not a great idea though some people might still try it!
https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/6zfrf1/should_you_bake_your_graphics_card/
On the contrary, this document describes a power saving, thermal efficient feature known as AMD Zero Power...
VK_EXT_extended_dynamic_state is an interesting Vulkan extension that was released recently. This talk will explain the extension purpose and the role it can play in making Vulkan pipelines more flexible and simplifying many Vulkan applications. It will also focus on the events that sparked the effort to create the extension inside the Khronos Group, making it an interesting case study,...
In this talk, we will peek behind the curtain of the freedesktop.org infrastructure, its costs and how we attempted to reduce those.
At the end of 2019 we realized that our gitlab hosting on GCE was costing us more than expected. So we analyzed the costs and developed countermeasures to reduce those costs. This talk will explain the various analysis steps, the measures we took and future...
In this presentation I will talk about graphics tracing and a collection of tools useful for profiling and trace analysis.
I will introduce gfx-pps, a project Collabora started working on this year, which provides some components that, in conjunction with Google's Perfetto, enable you to capture a trace and visualize GPU performance counters, or any kind of timeline, with a nice...
A few years ago the first steps to implement a virtual KMS device were taken, and so VKMS was born. This virtual device is very useful to run DRM-backend tests in headless machines, and so it can be used to extend CI’s tests coverage.
In Weston we are already using it to automatically run some very simple DRM-backend tests in its GitLab CI, and that’s what we are going to show in this talk....
When it comes to the hardware acceleration on the RaspberryPi (or any other
board, really), we often talk about the video encoding/decoding. With the
modern ARM CPUs (with NEON support) and libraries (like libjpeg-turbo), usage
of the dedicated hardware components for images encoding/decoding becomes less
important. However, there is still low-end hardware on the market (like...
In this talk we are going over adriconf, where it all started and what is the current state of mesa driver configuration from a end user perspective.
We will also briefly talk about the MESA_query_driver extension and why we need it as well as future Vulkan extension/work on the configuration area.
Your secretary's yearly report on the state of the X.org Foundation. Expect updates on the freedeskoptop.org, internship and student programs, XDC, and more!
