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Google Summer of Code 2008
I’m very happy to say that I was selected again to work on Google Summer of Code with X.Org Foundation. Daniel will be my mentor again. Thanks Google. Thanks X.Org! In the last year we did a nice work...
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fakemouse — a driver that emulates a mouse
For my SoC project I need some mechanism to evaluate the improvement of the input thread inside X. So I wrote a simple kernel driver that emulates the mouse device moving and emitting bits of a simple...
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Improving input latency
GSoC summary #1 – July 29 The current implementation of X Window System relies in a signal scheme to manage the input event coming from hardware devices. This scheme frequently get blocked when lot of...
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keep it going…
Given that GSoC ’08 is getting close to the end, strategy number 2 showed more feasible to proceed my work. Strategy #3 would be a lot of fun but would imply a hell massive codification as well (also a...
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Priorities and scheduling hints for X server threads
Input events routed through another thread/process can have bad effects on latency because we can’t guarantee that it will get scheduled at the right moment. Although this is hard to see happening with...
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late Christmas gift: freedesktop’s Xorg for MeeGo
Moikka. If you follow here [0] you will see a set of Debian packages that Graphics team at Nokia are continuously working to deploy a X11 implementation for MeeGo-Harmattan, where we target embedded...
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