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Major Upgrades to the Raspberry Pi GPU Driver Stack (XDC 2025 Recap)
XDC 2025 happened at the end of September, beginning of October this year, in Kuppelsaal, the historic TU Wien building in Vienna. XDC, The X.Org Developer’s Conference, is truly the premier gathering for open-source graphics development. The atmosphere was, as always, highly collaborative and packed with experts across the entire...
Implementing Performance Counters in V3D driver
Let me talk here about how we implemented the support for performance counters in the Mesa V3D driver, the OpenGL driver used by the Raspberry Pi 4. For reference, the implementation is very similar to the one already available (not done by me, by the way) for the VC4, OpenGL...