Name: XDC 2026 - X.Org Developer's Conference
Start: 2026-09-28T08:00:00-04:00
End: 2026-09-30T18:45:00-04:00
Location: No location set

XDC 2026 - X.Org Developer's Conference

from Monday, 28 September 2026 (08:00) to Wednesday, 30 September 2026 (18:45)

Monday, 28 September 2026

08:00 Breakfast and Registration
Breakfast and Registration
08:00 - 09:00
09:00
09:00 - 16:50
Contributions

09:00 Monday Opening Session

09:15 Is it time for Vulkan Gallium? - Faith Ekstrand (Collabora)

10:05 Handling XR Displays in the Linux Graphics Stack - Neil Armstrong (Linaro) Nie Jun (Linaro)

10:30 Next Generation Display Walls on Linux - Austin Shafer (NVIDIA)

11:20 LLM inference on the Raspberry Pi 5 via Vulkan - José María Casanova Crespo (Igalia)

12:10 nocl: OpenCL on CUDA - Karol Herbst (Red Hat, Nouveau)

14:00 SSA-based Register Allocation for Intel GPUs - Alyssa Rosenzweig (Intel)

14:50 Optimizing the Panfrost Gallium driver - Loïc Molinari (Collabora Ltd)

15:15 Demo: Gamma, a ray tracing debugger for Mesa drivers - Konstantin Seurer

16:00 Firefox + Steam Deck: Seamless experience across two compositors - Eri Pazos Pérez (Igalia)

16:25 Bringing Linux DRM Display Panel support in the modern age - Neil Armstrong (Linaro)
10:05 Workshop, Meeting or Hacking session
Workshop, Meeting or Hacking session
10:05 - 11:35
Contributions

10:05 Workshop: Vulkan "Gallium" - Faith Ekstrand (Collabora)
16:50 Lightning Talks
Lightning Talks
16:50 - 17:20
Contributions

16:50 Vulkan CTS uses too much system memory? No problem - Ricardo Garcia (Igalia, S.L.)

16:55 Turning Driver Bugs into Vulkan CTS Tests - Madeeha Javed (Igalia)

17:00 CI-Tron for kernel development - Dmitry Baryshkov (Qualcomm)

17:05 Finally getting rid of TGSI? - Erik Faye-Lund (Arm)

17:10 rusticl status update - Karol Herbst (Red Hat, Nouveau)
17:20 Monday Closing Session
Monday Closing Session
17:20 - 17:25

19:00 Welcome Reception, sponsored by Arm & Collabora
Welcome Reception, sponsored by Arm & Collabora
19:00 - 23:00
Tuesday, 29 September 2026

08:00 Breakfast and Registration
Breakfast and Registration
08:00 - 09:00
09:00 Main Track
Main Track
09:00 - 16:50
Contributions

09:15 Apple M3 GPU reverse engineering progress. - Anna Maniscalco (Valve) Alyssa Milburn Evan Tang (Codeweavers)

10:05 Error Handling on Atomic Commit Failure - Ramya Krishna Yella (Intel)

10:30 Panthor status update - Boris Brezillon (Collabora) Liviu Dudau (Arm Ltd) Karunika Choo (Arm Ltd)

11:20 Kraid: A new compiler for Panfrost - Lorenzo Rossi Faith Ekstrand (Collabora)

12:10 Better render passes in PanVK for moar FPS - Faith Ekstrand (Collabora)

14:00 Foveated rendering on Turnip - Connor Abbott (Valve)

14:50 MSM graphics status report and roadmap - Rob Clark (Qualcomm) Dmitry Baryshkov (Qualcomm)

15:15 Demo: Turnip without Root - Lucas Fryzek (Igalia S.L.)

16:00 Last Year of Turnip - Lucas Fryzek (Igalia S.L.) Karmjit Mahil (Igalia S.L.)

16:25 KosmicKrisp production ready! - Aitor Camacho Larrondo (LunarG)
09:10 Workshop, Meeting or Hacking session
Workshop, Meeting or Hacking session
09:10 - 10:40
Contributions

09:10 Workshop: Mesa CI - What still needs to be done, and how to get there? - Martin Roukala (né Peres) (MuPuF TMI / Valve contractor)
16:50 Lightning Talks
Lightning Talks
16:50 - 17:20
Contributions

16:50 etnaviv: good things take time - Christian Gmeiner (Igalia)

16:55 v3d/v3dv: status update from last XDC - Juan A. Suarez (Igalia, S.L.)

17:00 Supporting workgroups where there aren't any - Timur Kristóf (Valve)

17:05 Resolving game bugs using retry faults - Timur Kristóf (Valve)

17:10 drm/dp: statups update of the common kernel framework. - Dmitry Baryshkov (Qualcomm)
17:20 Tuesday Closing Session
Tuesday Closing Session
17:20 - 17:25
Wednesday, 30 September 2026

08:00 Breakfast and Registration
Breakfast and Registration
08:00 - 09:00
09:00 Main Track
Main Track
09:00 - 16:30
Contributions

09:00 Wednesday Opening Session

09:15 PowerVR: A Year of Progress - Simon Perretta (Imagination Technologies) Frank Binns (Imagination Technologies)

10:05 From KFD to DRM SVM: Toward a Unified Memory Model in DRM - Ray Huang (AMD)

10:30 Learning kernel development through fixing old AMD GPUs on Linux - Timur Kristóf (Valve)

11:20 NVK in 2026 - Mel Henning

12:10 Upstreaming Tyr: a DRM GPU kernel driver in Rust - Deborah Brouwer (Collabora)

14:30 Addressing Mesa CI pain points (2nd edition): what we've done, and where we are going - Martin Roukala (né Peres) (MuPuF TMI / Valve contractor) Eric Engestrom (Mesa)

14:55 Display Next Hackfest 2026: What we hacked on in Nice - Daniel Stone (Collabora)

15:20 Demo: Interactive HDCP Diagnostic Tool for Linux DRM/KMS stack. - santhosh reddy SANTHOSH GUDDATI

16:05 State of the X.Org Foundation - Lyude Paul (Red Hat)
09:10 Workshop, Meeting or Hacking session
Workshop, Meeting or Hacking session
09:10 - 10:40
Contributions

09:10 Workshop: Towards a governance model for Mesa - Erik Faye-Lund (Arm) Alyssa Rosenzweig (Intel)
16:30
16:30 - 17:15
Contributions

16:30 Introducing the Wayland Content Frame Rate Protocol - Naveen Kumar (Intel Corporation)

16:35 Navigating the Tunnel : DisplayPort over USB4/TBT - Kunal Joshi (intel)

16:40 Testing a browser on a real Wayland compositor (and why we all want this standardized) - Orko Garai (Igalia)

16:45 Wayland vs X.org latency comparison - Kamil Łysik (NVIDIA)

16:50 Workshop recap: Vulkan "Gallium" - Faith Ekstrand (Collabora)

16:55 Workshop recap: Mesa CI - Martin Roukala (né Peres) (MuPuF TMI / Valve contractor)

17:00 Workshop recap: Towards a governance model for Mesa - Alyssa Rosenzweig (Intel) Erik Faye-Lund (Arm)
17:15 XDC 2026 Closing Session
XDC 2026 Closing Session
17:15 - 17:25