Sessions at FOSDEM 2010 on Sunday 7th February

This talk will focus on the ongoing development efforts in Mono, and explore what are the new challenges that we are tackling.

After a very brief overview of some relevant details of the hardware-level programming interface of Radeon R300-R500 shader hardware, I explain the high-level structure of how fragment and vertex programs are compiled in the modern Gallium 3D driver and how we got there. Finally, I talk about the big remaining challenges for full GLSL support.

There are a few niggles about X11 today that mean every embedded device vendor patches the server in various unpleasant ways, whereas on the desktop it just looks suboptimal and we suck it up.

This talk will cover a few parts of X11, such as client-side cursors, the video API, Composite, RandR, which currently need to be improved to make X11 look as good as it possibly can, without going to Wayland or X12.