Unifying Android and Mainline Kernel Graphics Stack - Gustavo Padovan, Collabora Ltd.
Channel: The Linux Foundation
Date: 28/02/2017

Unifying Android and Mainline Kernel Graphics Stack - Gustavo Padovan, Collabora Ltd.

The Android ecosystem has tons of out-of-tree patches and a good part of them are to support Graphics drivers. This happened because the Upstream Kernel didn't support everything that is needed by Android. However the Mainline Graphics Stack has evolved in the last few years and features like Atomic Modesetting and Explicit Fencing support are making the dream of running Android on top of it possible. In other words, we will have Android and Mainline Kernels sharing the same Graphics stack!

This talk will cover what has been happening both on Android and Mainline Graphics Stacks in order to get Android to use the Upstream Kernel by default, going from what Android have developed to workaround the lack of upstream support to the latest improvements on the Mainline Graphics Stack and how they will fit together.

About Gustavo Padovan
Gustavo Padovan holds a BSc. Computer Science from the University of Campinas, Brazil. He is Linux Kernel Developer and works as Principal Software Engineer at the open-source consultancy Collabora Ltd. In the Kernel he has worked in a number of areas, notably as Maintainer of the Bluetooth Subsystem and has been focusing on the Graphics Side of the Kernel for the past two years where he is a committer of the drm-misc tree. Over the last few years Gustavo presented at Embedded Linux Conference Europe, LinuxCon NA, LinuxCon Europe, Linux Plumbers and Xorg Developers Conference.