LIBV Intentionally Breaks Videodrivers

I had a bzip2ed tarball from 2005 lying around, for which BZip2 threw a CRC error. libv@machine:~$ tar -jxvf ..

Uwe finished soldering the remaining boards, and sent them to me before his vacation started.

This is a picture of a very early test setup for the upcoming video boxes for FOSDEM.

I have just added Sea Island support to flashrom.

Remember that time when ATI employees tried to re-market their atomBIOS bytecode as scripts?

Soon it will be a decade since we started the RadeonHD driver, where we pushed ATI to a point of no return, got a proper C coded graphics driver and freely accessible documentation out.

You probably saw this phoronix article which references the log of the #dri-devel channel on freenode.

FOSDEM 2015 It was another great FOSDEM this year.

So someone leaked 2011 era PowerVR SGX microcode and user space...

Anandtech recently went all out on the ARM midgard architecture (Mali T series).

Like most, I was taken by surprise last weekend, I never expected this to happen, at all.

The FOSDEM organizers have captured more than 16h of video for 22 DevRooms and they are still working hard on getting all of these videos cut and transcoded and put on their site.

When i was still at SuSE, Localhorst would rent a Ford S-Max, and stuff it to the brim with openSuSE kit and swag and drive to FOSDEM.

Now that my body is well on its road to recovery, it's time to talk about the great success that FOSDEM was, once again.

Yes, there is going to be another exciting DevRoom about graphics on the upcoming FOSDEM.

Only a few days ago did I write about how open source software is not about "code or design or doing The Right Thing".

es2gears!

I just pushed updated limare code and a fix to ioquake3.

The combination of limare and open-gpu-tools can now run Quake 3 Arena timedemo without depending on the binary driver for the shader compiler!

Quake 3 Arena code.

At FOSDEM, I had a mainline talk about "Open ARM GPU Drivers", going over all the projects and GPUs, talking about the developers doing the hard reverse engineering work and the progress that they have made so far.

FOSDEM was awesome this year.

Yes!

(Bicycle-) Wheel building is an art.

In order to get easier access to Nokia things, and to boost security (as in, encrypt stuff, for a change), I've been reinstalling my trusted hp 6715b.