X.org Foundation

X Window System and related projects (Mesa, DRI, Wayland, etc.)

Technologies
opengl, vulkan, x11, wayland, opencl
Topics
3d acceleration, media acceleration, 2d acceleration, windowing system, graphic stack
X Window System and related projects (Mesa, DRI, Wayland, etc.)

The X.Org Foundation (or X.Org for short) is a foundation chartered to develop and execute effective strategies that provide worldwide stewardship and encouragement of the X Window System and related projects. Indeed, X.Org is much broader than just the X Window System. Under the umbrella of the X.Org Foundation can be found Linux's DRM subsystem (10% of the size of Linux), Mesa (open source 3D and video-decoding acceleration for AMD, Intel, NVIDIA,...), and Wayland. X.org's technologies underpin much of today's computing environment, and expertise in it is in high demand worldwide.

Today, as the result of more than 20 years of work by teams of leading open source developers, most of the graphical user interfaces for Unix and Linux systems rely on X.Org. On top of the X-Server-based systems, this includes Android- and ChromeOS-based devices, and Wayland-based systems (Sailfish OS, Gnome, ...). X.Org is responsible for the design of the X libraries which interface with application, the acceleration architectures used for graphics, and the graphics and input drivers. In particular, it has been at the center of the recent restructuring of the Linux graphics driver stack.

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2018 Program

Successful Projects

Contributor
Nayan Deshmukh
Mentor
Christian König
Organization
X.org Foundation
Improve the Linux/DRM GPU scheduler to feed one entity into multiple run queues
All the GPU drivers have a scheduler component that schedules the job received from the applications on the GPU hardware. Recently the amdgpu’s...
Contributor
Rodrigo Siqueira
Mentor
Gustavo Padovan
Organization
X.org Foundation
Virtual KMS module
The Kernel Mode-Setting (KMS) is a mechanism that enables a process to command the kernel to set a mode (screen resolution, color depth, and rate)...