Axel Davy

While OpenGL can fit D3D9 translation, native support has several advantages.

After explaining several of the reasons a native D3D9 support in Mesa is desirable, and doing some comparisons with wine conversion to OpenGL, we'll focus on the status on Gallium Nine today :

What has been done ? What works ? What is remaining to be done ? What is the future of Gallium Nine ?

This talk will be about the principles of GPU offloading, how it is handled with X DRI2, and how we decided to handle it on Wayland.

It's been about 3-4 years since first experiments on GPU offloading on X were done. How is GPU offloading handled with X ? And how the different design of Wayland could influence the way it's handled ?

In this talk, I'll present:

• the technical difficulties involved in GPU offloading.
• how X DRI2 handles GPU offloading.
• What choices we made when designing Wayland GPU offloading support.
• The work that has been done, and what is remaining to do for a better user experience.