From: Carl Worth Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 16:33:10 +0000 (+0100) Subject: Add blog post pointing to LCA 2008 talk X-Git-Url: https://git.cworth.org/git?p=cworth.org;a=commitdiff_plain;h=2a78e00b476eb7483eb3a4a6fc479e8b843a2924 Add blog post pointing to LCA 2008 talk --- diff --git a/src/exa/i965/lca_2008.mdwn b/src/exa/i965/lca_2008.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 0000000..97d3ac1 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/exa/i965/lca_2008.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,40 @@ +[[meta title="LCA 2008 Update on EXA/i965"]] + +[[tag exa performance xorg i965]] + +I'm definitely overdue as far as posting an update on the progress of +the work we've been doing to improve EXA performance for the i965 +driver. And just yesterday, Benjamin Otte pointed out to me that it's +really hard for many people to get any understanding at all about some +of the work that's going on within the X.org development community. + +Part of my reply to Benjamin was that there were a lot of excellent +talks given at LCA this year, (Keith Packard, Dave Airlie, Adam +Jackson, Jesse Barnes, Peter Hutterer, Eric Anholt, and myself were +all there talking about X in one for or another). And that is true, +but it's also true that many people were not able to attend LCA to +hear those talks. And while the LCA conference kindly posts [video of +the talks](http://linux.conf.au/programme/presentations) that's not +always the most desirable way of getting information when not at the +conference in person. + +So I think it would be fair to see that we've been doing a poor job of +providing easy-to-find information about what's going on with X. I +definitely want to help improve that, and I even just got an official +designation to do exactly that. I was recently elected to the X.org +Board of Directors and also assigned to chair a Communications +committed whose job it is to help X.org communicate more +effectively. What can we do better? Please email me with your +ideas. + +In the meantime, for my own part, I've just done a fairly thorough +writeup of my [LCA talk](http://cworth.org/talks/lca_2008). That's +something I've been wanting to get in the habit of doing for a +while. One thing I can't stand is reading presentation slides that are +almost content free---where clearly they weren't meant to stand alone +but were meant to be accompanied by someone speaking for up to an +hour. And I know I've been guilty of posting slides like that +before. So this time, I've written some text that should stand alone +quite well, (though, since I just wrote it today it might not +correlate extremely well with what I said that day at LCA---but I've +tried to address the same themes at least).