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Alejandro Piñeiro 14/07/2017

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 yesterday, we sent to mesa-dev the implementation of this extension for Intel gen8+ GPUs, that is the outcome...

Hyunjun Ko 06/07/2017

100 commits in GStreamer

It’s been 3 years since I’ve started working on GStreamer, meanwhile I contributed over 100 commits fortunately! Let’s look at my commits in each project in GStreamer. gstreamer: 7 commits gst-plugins-base: 5 commits ...

Charlie Turner 04/07/2017

Qt Creator Tips for WebKit GTK

Introduction Using an IDE on GNU/Linux for C/C++ development is slightly contentious in many circles. People either seem to not find IDE’s value-add worthwhile compared to their cult text editor + UNIX tools, or have tried them in the past and not...

Andy Wingo 29/06/2017

a new concurrent ml

Good morning all!In my last article I talked about how we composed a lightweight "fibers" facility in Guile out of lower-level primitives. What we implemented there is enough to be useful, but it is missing an important aspect of concurrency:...

Javier Muñoz 28/06/2017

AWS4 browser-based upload goes upstream in Ceph

Some days ago Matt committed the great Radek's effort to have a more coherent and structured scaffolding in the Ceph RGW auth subsystem supporting the differences among the available auth algorithms. As part of this effort and patchset related to the RGW...

Andy Wingo 27/06/2017

growing fibers

Good day, Schemers!Over the last 12 to 18 months, as we were preparing for the Guile 2.2 release, I was growing increasingly dissatisfied at not having a good concurrency story in Guile.I wanted to be able to spawn a million threads on a core, to support...

Andy Wingo 26/06/2017

an early look at p4 for software networking

Happy midsummer, hackfriends!As you know at work we have been trying to find ways to apply compilers technology to the networking space. We will compile high-level configurations into low-level network processing graphs, search algorithms into lookup...

Iago Toral 21/06/2017

Working with lights and shadows – Part I: Phong reflection model

Some time ago I promised to write a bit more about how shadow mapping works. It has taken me a while to bring myself to actually deliver on that front, but I have finally decided to put together some posts … Continue reading →

Jacobo Aragunde 16/06/2017

GENIVI-fying Chromium, part 3: multi-seat

In the previous blog posts, we described the work to bring the Chromium browser to the GENIVI Development Platform (GDP) using the latest version of the Ozone-Wayland project. We also introduced our intention to develop multi-seat capabilities on that...

Javier Muñoz 16/06/2017

CVE-2017-7269 - Binary patch diffing

This Tuesday, Microsoft released additional updates for older platforms to protect against potential nation-state activity. Among the updates, the official patch fixing the CVE-2017-7269 vulnerability is available. This official patch is a good way to...

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