28-30 September 2026
America/Toronto timezone

Display Next Hackfest 2026: What we hacked on in Nice

30 Sep 2026, 14:55
20m
Talk (half slot) Talk (half slot) Main Track

Speaker

Daniel Stone (Collabora)

Description

A recap of this year's Display Next Hackfest, held in Nice right after Embedded Recipes. Topics ranged from finally getting backlight control working through KMS, to AMD FreeSync Premium Pro (aka Source-Based Tone Mapping) landing support on DP and HDMI, to DisplayID gradually taking over from EDID. We also dug into the perennial pain of frame timing on high-refresh-rate displays, merged a new Wayland protocol for multi-device dmabuf feedback, made progress on hot-pluggable DRM bridges, and squashed some gnarly slow-atomic-commit bugs on AMD that were blocking overlay planes by default. This talk walks through what got discussed, what got decided, and what's actually shipping.

Code of Conduct Yes
In-person or virtual presentation In-person
GSoC, EVoC or Outreachy No

Primary authors

Daniel Stone (Collabora) Robert Mader (Collabora)

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