Goodbye i915

For the past 4 years and half I have being working in i915, the Linux kernel-space driver for Intel GPUs, but soon I will be moving to Mesa (the 3D user-space driver for almost all GPUs supported by Linux) so thought that is the best time to share a...

New e18 modules

Yes e18, the world didn’t end and e17 was released. And then the development of e18 began. This desktop environment will be built on top of EFL1.8 that will bring edbus instead of the old e_dbus. So in these first weeks of the year, we ported every e17 module...

EDBus – EFL D-Bus wrapper

As I have wrote in a previous post, I will talk about the newest EFL library: EDBus. EDBus is a D-Bus wrapper, that provides easy access to D-Bus for EFL applications. But what is D-Bus? It’s a protocol of communication between processes, like CORBA and DCOP. Heavily used in all...

Bootstrap

Recently I started to work at Profusion, a software development company focused in open source projects, here some of them: – Linux Kernel – EFL – BlueZ – WebKit – PulseAudio This blog was made with the intention to share news about projects that I’m working, some tutorials and anything that...