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.

POSTS

Aug 22, 2019

ARB_gl_spirv and ARB_spirv_extension support for i965 landed Mesa master

And something more visible thanks to that: now the Intel Mesa driver exposes OpenGL 4.6 support, the most recent version of OpenGL. As perhaps you cou

Jul 14, 2017

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

Jul 29, 2016

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

Jun 2, 2016

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

Sep 18, 2015

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

Sep 14, 2015

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

Jul 21, 2014

GUADEC 2014

Leaving tomorrow, as I will be first at the Evince Hackfest

Apr 28, 2014

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

Oct 21, 2013

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