Alejandro Piñeiro
Working at Igalia since January 2006, with a previous experience in 2004 as a trainee student.
Vigo (Spain)
I like computer stuff since I was a child, at first due to videogames. I like to spend the weekend chilling with friends, playing foosball, tute (a card game), darts, and occasionally soccer, although recently I have been playing less and less soccer and, instead, started to play the bass guitar. I have come to the conclusion that I play the bass guitar the same way I play soccer and foosball: in a rash, imprecise, and rough way.
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Bringing VK_KHR_16bit_storage to Intel GPUs
Just yesterday, Vulkan 1.0.54 was released. Among other things, it includes the specification for a new extension, VK_KHR_16bit_storage. And just yest
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One year of Mesa
Changes
During the last year and something, my work at Igalia was focused on the Intel i965 driver for Mesa, the open source OpenGL implementation. Ia
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Introducing Mesa intermediate representations on Intel drivers with a practical example
Introduction
The recent big news on the Igalia work on Mesa was that our effort getting the ARB_gpu_shader_fp64 and ARB_vertex_attrib_64bit extensions
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Optimizing shader assembly instruction on Mesa using shader-db (II)
On my previous post I mentioned that I have been working on optimizing the shader instruction count for specific shaders guided by shader-db, and show
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Optimizing shader assembly instruction on Mesa using shader-db
Lately I have been working on Mesa. Specifically I have been working with my fellow igalians Eduardo Lima and Antía Puentes to provide a NIR to vec4 p
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GUADEC 2014
Leaving tomorrow, as I will be first at the Evince Hackfest
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GNOME 3.12.1 out: PDF accessibility progress
Welcome to a new “GNOME 3.12 is out blog post”, somewhat late because I wanted to focus on 3.12.1 instead of the usual 3.12.0, and because I was away
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GNOME Accessibility Update: 3.10 Release, Montreal Summit and Plans for 3.12
3.10 is out, what’s new about accessibility?
As you probably already know, GNOME 3.10 was released several weeks ago, with lots of new accessibility g
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Going back from FOSDEM 2013
Last week planet GNOME was full of “Going to” posts. This is my traditional “Coming from” post. Most of my events-related posts are written after the
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