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XDC 2020 - Day 1 - September 16, 2020

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Presentations from XDC 2020 covering the Raspberry Pi 4 Vulkan driver, WSL graphics architecture, and running GUI applications in WSL2.

Timestamps (thanks to xpmon): Beginning of the stream Actual start (introduction/sponsors) Overview of the open source Vulkan driver for Raspberry Pi 4 (Iago Toral - Igalia) WSL Graphics Architecture (Jesse Natalie & Steve Pronovost) X11 and Wayland applications in WSL (Steve Pronovost) Mesa for D3D12 Mapping Layers (Jesse Natalie) Profiling on AMD GPUs using tracing (Bas Nieuwenhuizen ) Secure Buffer Object Support with Trusted Memory Zone (Huang Rui) GSoC/EVoC Overview (Trevor Woerner) VKMS improvements using IGT GPU Tools (Melissa Wen) Allocation Constraints (James Jones & Simon Ser) Why is Peer to Peer DMA so hard on Linux? (Alex Deucher) ⚡ Lightning talks ⚡ IGT GPU Tools 2020 Update (Arkadiusz Hiler) Gamescope update and demos (Pierre-Loup Griffais) Vulkan Presentation Timing Extension (James Jones) State of text input on Wayland (Dorota dcz) From witchcraft to production (Alyssa Rosenzweig)

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What people say. Engineers recommend this conference stream for its deep dives into WSL2 graphics architecture, Wayland support, and low-level Linux GPU drivers.

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On “Microsoft is working on an Android subsystem for Windows 10”

The XDC 2020 video: link to this video If you're interested in the lowlevel WDDM driver <-> VM driver mapping, seek to 1:18:01 -- it also talks about the compute APIs like CUDA and OpenCL. If you're interested in WSLG, seek to 2:13:01 -- this is the GUI part of the story.
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filmgirlcwon Hacker News • Mentions

On “Linux under WSL2 can be leaking”

…les, your terminal, everything is mapped to WSL2, with all the GUI parts from Windows. It’s one of my favorite things. I’m not trying to convince people that WSL2 is the end-all be-all, even though I’m an unabashed fan, but I just want to correct the record a bit (regarding VS Code) and share that X11/Wayland GUI support is coming 1: link 2: link to this video 3: link…
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AaronFrielon Hacker News • Mentions

On “Setting Up Arch Linux with KDE Plasma in Windows Subsystem for Linux 2”

A native method of running GUI applications in WSL2 is coming, I believe it'll be in GA in the Fall 2021 release: link XDC 2020 talk here: link to this video For Windows Insiders running preview builds, I believe some of the pieces are present but not preconfigured. The XDC 2020 conference talk discusses the advantages of the built-in support, including fewer memory copies and lower latency.
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Aldo_MXon Hacker News • Mentions

On “Facebook says Apple is too powerful – they're right”

Do they? The last time I checked news about Windows they were making big efforts to make Linux apps run1. And considering the state of the art of Linux GPU Drivers, maybe using Windows will be the only feasible way to actually run Linux apps. 1: link to this video
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