Notes & Actions: Linaro Graphics Working Group - Mar 23, 2011

[Alexandros Frantzis]

Hi,

notes and actions from our Wednesday graphics working group call are
available on the wiki:

 + https://wiki.linaro.org/WorkingGroups/Middleware/Graphics/Notes/2011-03-23

Details about when and where of this meeting can be found here:

 + https://wiki.linaro.org/WorkingGroups/Middleware/Graphics#Weekly%20Public%20Call

Summary
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  * Kernel tree for UMP and Mali device driver awaiting landing team approval.
  * Benchmark/validation: cairo and Qt traces created, packaged and on developer PPA.
  * cairo-gles2
    * Patchset "Add r8g8b8a8 and r8g8b8x8 formats" sent to upstream Pixman for review. 
  * Key driver bugs affecting current work (may have been fixed, but not yet in archive):
    * cairo-gles2
      * eglInitialize performance on OMAP4 (LP #690821)
      * color component swapping on efikamx (LP #736869)
      * No GL_OES_texture_npot extension on OMAP4. 
    * glcompbench
      * EGL_KHR_image_pixmap functionality flaky on efikamx (LP #733403)
      * glcompbench rendering is not presented on screen on efikamx (LP #736811)

Risks / Issues
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  * Aforementioned bugs may impact validation effort and release of work.
  * Skia runtime detection of NEON work stalled in upstream apathy. 

Thanks,
-- 

 - Alexandros