Graphics: OpenGL ES 2.0, Wayland 1.15 & Weston 4.0, Xorgproto 2018.2, AMDGPU, Freedreno Gallium3D, Vega
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Google & Collabora Working On OpenGL ES 2.0 Virtualized GPU Access For Containers
Robert Foss of Collabora has shared some work they are engaged in with Google for virtualizing GPU access and allowing for OpenGL ES 2.0 acceleration for containers.
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Wayland 1.15 & Weston 4.0 Now Planned For Release In April
Wayland 1.15 and the Weston 4.0 compositor had been planned for release in February but Wayland developers decided there was still enough material on the verge of landing that they decided to delay the release. A new release schedule has now been put forward for getting these updates out in April.
Derek Foreman of the Samsung OSG has stepped up to manage this revised Wayland 1.15 / Weston 4.0 release. Now that the "high priority" work has been merged, Derek is ready to move on with wrangling the release.
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Xorgproto 2018.2 Released To Fix The Fallout Of This New X.Org Package
Last week marked the inaugural release of Xorgproto, a new package consisting of all the X.Org protocol headers rather than being in standalone packages now that X.Org Server development is slowing down and that many of these protocol headers wind up getting updated at the same time. Today marks the Xorgproto 2018.2 release.
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34 More Patches Roll Out For AMDGPU DC With Raven Ridge Fixes Plus Color Management
Open-source AMD Linux driver developers have started off the week by posting 34 more patches for the "DC" display code stack that was mainlined in Linux 4.15 and further improved with Linux 4.16. With these latest patches that begin the queue for Linux 4.17 there are yet more AMDGPU DC improvements and in particular Raven Ridge fixes.
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Freedreno Gallium3D Tackling NIR Optimizations & More In 2018
Freedreno project leader Rob Clark who is employed by Red Hat has provided a status update on his activities around this reverse-engineered, open-source Qualcomm Adreno graphics driver.
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AMD's first Ryzen Desktop APUs with Vega graphics are now available
AMD has announced today the worldwide release of their first Ryzen Desktop APUs with Vega graphics, could be an interesting choice for low-cost Linux gaming.
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