From AF_UNIX to kdbus | Ponyhof
You’re a developer and you know AF_UNIX? You used it occasionally in your code, you know how high-level IPC puts marshaling on top and generally have a confident feeling when talking about it…| Ponyhof
You’re a developer and you know AF_UNIX? You used it occasionally in your code, you know how high-level IPC puts marshaling on top and generally have a confident feeling when talking about it…| Ponyhof
Two months ago in April ’14 I’ve been in San Francisco to meet with other FOSS developers and discuss current projects. There were several events, including the first GNOME Westcoast Su…| Ponyhof
For a long time connecting your TV or other external monitors to your laptop has always been a hassle with cables and drivers. Your TV had an HDMI-port, but your laptop only DVI, your projector req…| Ponyhof
For 4 months now we’ve been hacking on a new syscall for the linux-kernel, called memfd_create. The intention is to provide an easy way to get a file-descriptor for anonymous memory, without …| Ponyhof
Another year, another Google Summer of Code. This time I got the chance to work on something that I had on my TODO list for quite a long time: DRM Render- and Modeset-Nodes As part of the X.org Fou…| Ponyhof
While most devices of the 3 major x86 desktop GPU-providers have GPU and display-controllers merged on a single card, recent development (especially on ARM) shows that rendering (via GPU) and mode-…| Ponyhof
In a previous article I talked about the history of VT switching. Created as a simple way to switch between text-mode sessions it has grown into a fragile API to protect one testosterone monster (a…| Ponyhof
Having multiple sessions on your system in parallel is a quite handy feature. It allows things like Fast User Switching or running two different DEs at the same time. Especially graphics developers…| Ponyhof
My work towards deprecating CONFIG_VT recently got stuck due to several kernel changes that are needed to proceed. DRM Render-nodes and Modeset-nodes are on their way and so I thought I’d pro…| Ponyhof
One thing I always admired on linux is fast session-switching. A simple key-press (ctrl+alt+Fx) and I can ditch my current session to switch to another one. While in principle session-interaction i…| Ponyhof
