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28th October 2024

Unleashing the power of 3D graphics in the Raspberry Pi is a key commitment for Igalia through its collaboration with Raspberry Pi. The introduction of Super Pages for the Raspberry Pi 4 and 5 marks another step in this journey, offering some performance enhancements and more efficient memory usage. In this post, we’ll dive deep into the technical details of Super Pages, discuss the challenges we faced during implementation, and illustrate the benefits this feature brings to the Raspberry Pi ecosystem.

2nd April 2024

The Linux kernel 6.8 came out on March 10th, 2024, bringing brand-new features and plenty of performance improvements on different subsystems. As part of Igalia, I’m happy to be an active part of many features that are released in this version, and today I’m going to review some of them.

11th January 2024

Igalia is always working hard to improve 3D rendering drivers of the Broadcom VideoCore GPU, found in Raspberry Pi devices. One of our most recent efforts in this sense was the implementation of CPU jobs from the Vulkan driver to the V3D kernel driver.

22nd May 2023

After finishing up my first Igalia Coding Experience in January, I got the amazing opportunity to keep working in the DRI community by extending my Igalia CE to a second round. Huge thanks to Igalia for providing me with this opportunity!

16th May 2023

This blogpost was actually written partially in November/December 2022 while I was developing IGT tests for the V3D driver. I ended up leaving it aside for a while and now, I came back and finished the last loose ends. That’s why I’m referencing the time where I was fighting against V3D’s noop jobs.

8th May 2023

In my last blog post, I described a bit of my previous work on the rustgem project, and after that, as I had finished the VGEM features, I sent a RFC to the mailing list. Although I still need to work on some rustgem feedback, I started to explore more of the KMS (Kernel Mode Setting) and its properties.

22nd March 2023

After my last blogpost, I kept developing the Rust version of the VGEM driver, also known as rustgem for now. Previously, I had developed two important features of the driver: the ability to attach a fence and the ability to signal a fence. Still one important feature is still missing: the ability to prevent hangs. Currently, if the fence is not signaled, the driver will simply hang. So, we can create a callback that signals the fence when the fence is not signaled by the user for more than 10 seconds.

28th February 2023

In the last blog post, I pointed out that I didn’t know exactly what it would be my next steps for the near future. Gladly, I had the amazing opportunity to start a new Igalia Coding Experience with a new project.

17th January 2023

2022 really passed by fast and after I completed the GSoC 2022, I’m now completing another milestone: my project in the Igalia Coding Experience and I had the best experience during those four months. I learned tremendously about the Linux graphics stack and now I can say for sure that I would love to keep working in the DRM community.

8th December 2022

It has been a busy couple of months. As I pointed on my last blog post, I finished GSoC and joined the Igalia Coding Experience mentorship project. In October, I also traveled to Minneapolis for XDC 2022 where I presented to the Linux Graphics community our AMD/KUnit work with my colleagues. So, let’s make a summary of the last couple of months.

7th September 2022

My journey on the Google Summer of Code project passed by so fast… This is my last week on the GSoC and those 14 weeks flew by! A lot of stuff happened during those three months, and as I’m writing this blog post, I feel quite nostalgic about this three months.

10th August 2022

For those looking for a short answer: yes, it does.

19th July 2022

Last week, the series with DRM Kernel Selftests conversion to KUnit tests was merged into drm-misc-next and will probably be on the mainline on 5.20.

11th July 2022

This week I was planning on talking about Device Mocking with KUnit, as I’m currently working on my first unit test for a physical device, the AMDGPU Radeon RX5700. I would introduce you to the Kernel Unit Testing Framework (KUnit), how it works, how to mock devices with it, and why it is so great to write tests.

11th June 2022

I’m a Fedora fan. I mean: I have two laptops for development, and all of them run Fedora. I also have a deployment machine. Guess what? It runs Fedora. Stickers? The Fedora Logo sticked forever on my laptop.

26th May 2022

This year I had a goal: to improve my abilities as a kernel developer. After some research, I figured out about the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) initiative.

19th May 2022

There are many ways to bring Real-Time to Linux. A standard Linux distribution can provide a reasonable latency to a soft real-time application. But, if you are dealing with applications with harsh timing restrictions, you might be unsatisfied with the results provided by a standard Linux distro.

28th March 2022

I started my journey with the Linux Kernel in October 2021. At that time, I thought it was impossible for a 19-year-old Brazilian girl to have an approved commit at the kernel. Then, I find out about an extracurricular group at Campinas, LKCAMP. And I found out that undergraduate students were able to contribute to the kernel. Although I couldn´t go to the LKCAMP meetings, this really push me forward, cause I saw that I was able to be a part of the kernel community.