Understanding Linux Graphics Stack

There are very few documents on Linux Graphics Stacks. In this post, I will collect some relatively well written documents on this topic.

• The Linux Graphics Stack
• The State of Linux Graphics
  • Though it is written old, 2005, it describes the broad landscape of technologies incuding XAA, EXA, X Render, DRI, Mesa, XGL, EGL, and so on.
• More explanations on DRI and other jargons 
• How to build and install full graphics stack from git
  • You will learn where the packages are and how to install.
• Introduction to Gallium3D
• Gallium3D Wikipedia
• X.org Events
  • X Developers’ Summit (XDS) and more
• How NVidia hardware works
• X.Org EVoC Work On Gallium3D OpenCL
• OpenCL 1.1 implementation on Gallium3D
• Accelerated OpenCL using Gallium3D