The next X.org Developer Conference will take place on September 21 to September 23 in Helsinki, Finland. This is a major event for Linux developers working in the graphics/display areas, not only at the X.org level, but also at the kernel level, in Mesa, and other related projects.
Bootlin engineer Maxime Ripard will be attending this conference, with 80+ other engineers from Intel, Google, NVidia, Texas Instruments, AMD, RedHat, etc.
Maxime is the author of the DRM/KMS driver in the upstream Linux kernel for the Allwinner SoCs, which provides display support for numerous Allwinner platforms, especially Nextthing’s CHIP (with parallel LCD support, HDMI support, VGA support and composite video support). Maxime has also worked on making the 3D acceleration work on this platform with a mainline kernel, by adapting the Mali kernel driver. Most recently, Maxime has been involved in Video4Linux development, writing a driver for the camera interface of Allwinner SoCs, and supervising Florent Revest work on the Allwinner VPU that we published a few days ago.
