[Mesa-dev] X/Graphics DevRoom at FOSDEM 2012? (4-5 February)

[Luc Verhaegen]

On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 12:18:15PM +0300, Alon Levy wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 10:49:33PM +0200, Luc Verhaegen wrote:
> >  ...
> > deliver. So, with a deadline of oktober 1st, i am now asking for 6 
> > people (basically fill up saturday afternoon) to step up and promise to 
> > hold a talk at FOSDEM, even when their employers end up not paying for 
> > their expenses, even when there is some other conference that might turn 
> > up in the next 5.5 months.
> 
> I'd like to talk about Xspice, and about plans for 3d support in spice.
> 
> Spice is currently limited to qemu virtual machines, Xspice is a Xvnc like
> server using spice. The architecture is different in that it just implements
> a few drivers (which link with the spice server library) and uses Xorg binary
> without any changes. I can talk about the difficulties in doing that (X's
> select loop, too many apis for input events)
> 
> 3D support - it's currently being designed. Nothing to show code/demo wise. But I
> hope to have a design to present by February, and would like to talk about it.

This sound like a rather redhat specific topic. How certain are you that 
redhat is going to send you to FOSDEM, and if they don't, are you coming 
regardless?

So far, only Martin Peres has stepped up and stated "yes! I will be 
there!", and he will be happy to give FOSDEM visitors a talk about 
Nouveau.

Luc Verhaegen.