9-11 October 2024
Canada/Eastern timezone

A little Windows with your Mesa?

10 Oct 2024, 14:45
45m
Talk (full slot) [FULL] Main Track (Room 9AB)

Speaker

Dr Faith Ekstrand (Collabora)

Description

We talk a lot about the value of free software drivers on Linux but what about bringing those same free software drivers to other platforms? Earlier this year, Faith successfully got RADV running on Windows on top of AMD's closed-source kernel driver. In this talk, Faith will go over the basics of the WDDM2 kernel API, how she went about reverse-engineering the AMD interfaces, and talk about what shipping a Mesa-based driver on Windows would actually look like.

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

Primary author

Dr Faith Ekstrand (Collabora)

Presentation Materials

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