Graphics: mode settings, Wayland and more

The Linux Plumbers 2015 Graphics track is focusing on making sure that we discuss next steps regarding graphics/modesetting and standards for the next 6 to 12 months. With so much convergence taking place right now, there is a great opportunity to make things smooth and work across architectures and platforms better than ever.

We should continue the work of improving DRM drivers all around, and make them as cohesive as possible.

To make this microconference a success, representatives from Intel, NVidia, AMD, ARM, Samsung and anyone else with a GPU (or GPU experience) should attend. Interests are running far and wide for better graphics with comprehensive layer management. Let's give it to them.

You can find out all about Linux Plumbers Conference at https://linuxplumbersconf.org/2015/. It will take place in Seattle, WA, USA from August 19th to 21th at the Sheraton Hotel Downtown.

Please add yourself to this list if you are interested to attend the microconference. The proposed topics have garnered interest from the following people but additions to the topics are of course welcomed and so is the participation of anyone else willing to contribute to the microconference.

• Daniel Vetter
• Rob Clark
• Daniel Stone (yes)
• Javier Martinez (yes)
• Thierry Reding
• Jasper St. Pierre (yes)
• Laurent Pinchart (yes)
• Nicolas Dufresne (yes)
• Derek Foreman (yes)
• Bryce Harrington (yes)
• Jon Cruz
• Sumit Semwal (yes)
• Anand Balagopalakrishnan (yes)
• Many others (all welcome)

This Plumbers microconference should cover

1. Atomic Modesetting - current state of affairs, what to do next, feature gaps from ADF
2. Buffer allocation - future iteration of GBM
3. Secure data paths - allocation and usage of buffers requiring a verified secure pipeline
4. Explicit fencing - APIs and implementation strategies for explicitly-fenced usage and integration with legacy implicit pipelines
5. Display writeback - interface design and interop with media encode engines
6. Media decoding and direct rendering paths (including live sources)
7. Wayland/Weston - Adoption review and share real-world experiences
8. Testing:
   • Automated display testing
   • Hardware availability and pooling together
   • Continuous integration testing (including real-world scenarios)
9. Khronos privileged conversation (if required) to go over things that could be discussed while in Seattle

Note: The final schedule will be posted on the linuxplumbersconf.org website on the Schedule page. Presentation slides will be available on the Plumbers page by following the links to the abstracts.

Attendees to this microconference are most likely to be interested in the Android microconference also. It would be great if those two microconference could not overlap from a scheduling stand-point.

Notes from the discussion are available in the Etherpad: https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/LPC2015_Graphics

Confirmed runner: Daniel Stone (daniels@collabora.com)

Image credits: Seattle Sunrise by CEBImagery (source: http://bit.ly/1LyXDtZ)