A collection of talks from the X.Org Developer Conference 2022 covering Vulkan drivers, mesh shading in Mesa, and reverse engineering the Apple M1 GPU.
xdc2022.x.org/
Timestamps by Thomas Debesse:
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Opening session -- Arkadiusz Hiler (CodeWeavers), Jeremy White (CodeWeavers)
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Replacing the geometry pipeline with mesh shaders -- Ricardo Garcia (Igalia, S.L.)
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Mesh shading implementation in Mesa -- Timur Kristóf (Valve)
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How to write a Vulkan driver in 2022 -- Jason Ekstrand (Collabora)
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World's Slowest Raytracer -- Bas Nieuwenhuizen (RADV)
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Tasting the Forbidden Apple -- Alyssa Rosenzweig (Collabora), Lina Asahi
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Zink: Staging a Global, Cross-Platform OpenGL Takeover -- Mike Blumenkrantz (Valve)
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KUnit sorcery and the uncanny nature of FPU in the DRM -- Isabella Basso (University of São Paulo), Maíra Canal (University of São Paulo), Magali Lemes
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Progress of MST improvement from AMD -- Wayne Lin
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Post OpenGL: casual graphics development -- Erik Faye-Lund (Collabora)
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Update on OpenChrome Project -- Kevin Brace (Brace Computer Laboratory)
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On “Asahi Lina on her experience writing the M1 GPU driver for Linux in Rust”
The recent Xorg Conference talk had some details (sorry I don't have the exact timecode link atm, it's somewhere in link to this video Basically there's a hypervisor that can intercept the low-level GPU command flow over the memory-mapped IO. They're talking to the hypervisor over USB from a host computer. ~~The virtualized M1 macOS is also modified and the GPU driver is instrumented for reverse engineering.~~
