The annual X.Org Developer's Conference (XDC 2026) will be held in Toronto from September 28-30 at Daniels Spectrum. The conference schedule includes a variety of talks focused on advancements in graphics and display technologies.
Karol Herbst will present on NOCL, an open-source OpenCL implementation built on top of CUDA and utilizing a Gallium3D driver with Rusticl. Faith Ekstrand will discuss the potential need for a "Vulkan Gallium" approach to Vulkan API drivers, citing the increasing complexity of Vulkan extensions and the benefits of code sharing similar to those achieved by Gallium3D with OpenGL drivers.
Erik Faye-Lund will present on the possibility of phasing out TGSI, Gallium3D’s intermediate representation, in favor of the newer NIR. Alyssa Rosenzweig will share her work on the Intel Jay compiler, which uses SSA-based register allocation. Updates on the Apple M3 GPU reverse engineering process for Asahi Linux and the Qualcomm MSM graphics driver will also be provided.
Additionally, a status update on NVK, the open-source NVIDIA Vulkan driver, and various other Mesa drivers will be presented. A workshop is planned to develop a formal governance model for Mesa. Intel’s Naveen Kumar will present a proposal for a new Wayland protocol, "wp-content-frame-rate-v1," to allow media players to communicate content frame rates to the compositor. Phoronix will provide remote coverage of the conference.
Read the original coverage
💬 Comments
📜 Comment Policy