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An introduction to the Linux graphics stack
Unless you’ve run into a terrible problem with your GPU, I bet you never spent some time actually thinking about how we depend so heavily on graphics to actually do anything meaningful1 on a computer: from small square blinking letters on a terminal to the utmost insanely complex games we play these days - in the context of Linux, it all depends on the DRI!
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A small disclaimer: of course there are many disabled people which need other methods of interaction with a computer that don’t rely as heavily on graphics, and I do think it’s a huge problem that we don’t have alternatives for those people in a large majority of cases, as most software does not give the lightest thought to the vision impaired. I should talk more about this in the future but, for now, please don’t forget it’s an existing issue that needs addressing! ↩
About Kernel Symbol Table, Compilation, and more
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.