# Virtual XDC2020 conference live-stream now active **URL:** \ **Category:** Announcements\ **Tags:** news\ **Created:** [September 16, 2020, 11:25am UTC](https://psychtoolbox.discourse.group/t/virtual-xdc2020-conference-live-stream-now-active/3404 "2020-09-16T11:25:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![mariokleiner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/13edae/32.png) [@mariokleiner](https://psychtoolbox.discourse.group/u/mariokleiner)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2020, 11:25am UTC](https://psychtoolbox.discourse.group/t/virtual-xdc2020-conference-live-stream-now-active/3404/1 "2020-09-16T11:25:57Z")
Public service announcement: For those interested in the Linux graphics-/input-/display- stack and the technology behind Psychtoolbox for Linux, this may be interesting. The 2020 virtual X-Developers conference (XDC 2020) live-stream has just started. XDC will happen throughout the following 3 days (Wed, Thurs, Fri) Today’s live-stream, just started with an overview of the upcoming Vulkan driver for the Raspberry Pi 4: [![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/free1/uploads/psychtoolbox/original/1X/5af1a3da1fc01098994f0c548bce1ce0ce9c5fa9.jpeg "XDC 2020 - Day 1 - September 16, 2020") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2mnbyRgXkY) Overview page over topics, schedule, live-streams and recordings: [https://xdc2020.x.org/event/9/](https://xdc2020.x.org/event/9/) Enjoy, i certainly will! ---
**Author:** ![mariokleiner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/13edae/32.png) [@mariokleiner](https://psychtoolbox.discourse.group/u/mariokleiner)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2020, 12:13pm UTC](https://psychtoolbox.discourse.group/t/virtual-xdc2020-conference-live-stream-now-active/3404/2 "2020-09-16T12:13:14Z")
Next up at 14.15 CEST: Microsoft “Windows Subsystem for Linux” graphics architecture design. ---
**Author:** ![mariokleiner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/13edae/32.png) [@mariokleiner](https://psychtoolbox.discourse.group/u/mariokleiner)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2020, 2:32pm UTC](https://psychtoolbox.discourse.group/t/virtual-xdc2020-conference-live-stream-now-active/3404/3 "2020-09-16T14:32:46Z")
Next up at 16.35: Application profiling on AMD graphics cards using tracing Something for people who like to optimize their graphics code on Linux for AMD. ---
**Author:** ![mariokleiner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/13edae/32.png) [@mariokleiner](https://psychtoolbox.discourse.group/u/mariokleiner)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2020, 4:42pm UTC](https://psychtoolbox.discourse.group/t/virtual-xdc2020-conference-live-stream-now-active/3404/4 "2020-09-16T16:42:11Z")
Now playing: Memory allocation constraints on gpu’s. Mostly useful if you want to appreciate the complexity of different devices from different vendors working together, e.g., “why is Optimus etc. so hard?” - Only one aspect of it, memory management and buffer sharing. ---
**Author:** ![mariokleiner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/13edae/32.png) [@mariokleiner](https://psychtoolbox.discourse.group/u/mariokleiner)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2020, 6:06pm UTC](https://psychtoolbox.discourse.group/t/virtual-xdc2020-conference-live-stream-now-active/3404/5 "2020-09-16T18:06:50Z")
Some 5-10 minute short-talks to round it off are happening now… ---
**Author:** ![mariokleiner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/13edae/32.png) [@mariokleiner](https://psychtoolbox.discourse.group/u/mariokleiner)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2020, 1:43pm UTC](https://psychtoolbox.discourse.group/t/virtual-xdc2020-conference-live-stream-now-active/3404/6 "2020-09-17T13:43:53Z")
Live stream for today: [![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/free1/uploads/psychtoolbox/original/1X/8e3317406c7a6a9648a550fe11bdf1058e4e1198.jpeg "XDC 2020 - Day 2 - September 17, 2020") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxFPFsT1wDw) Now running: LitDip - Open drivers for open-source hardware like FPGA’s. ---
**Author:** ![mariokleiner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/13edae/32.png) [@mariokleiner](https://psychtoolbox.discourse.group/u/mariokleiner)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2020, 2:11pm UTC](https://psychtoolbox.discourse.group/t/virtual-xdc2020-conference-live-stream-now-active/3404/7 "2020-09-17T14:11:28Z")
Now running: The Libre Soc project – Building on open-source/open-hardware graphics card. ---
**Author:** ![mariokleiner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/13edae/32.png) [@mariokleiner](https://psychtoolbox.discourse.group/u/mariokleiner)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2020, 4:31pm UTC](https://psychtoolbox.discourse.group/t/virtual-xdc2020-conference-live-stream-now-active/3404/8 "2020-09-17T16:31:33Z")
Now running: Something about the way we test graphics drivers on Linux. ---
**Author:** ![mariokleiner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/13edae/32.png) [@mariokleiner](https://psychtoolbox.discourse.group/u/mariokleiner)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2020, 5:03pm UTC](https://psychtoolbox.discourse.group/t/virtual-xdc2020-conference-live-stream-now-active/3404/9 "2020-09-17T17:03:08Z")
And now: How to prevent gpu’s from melting, aka thermal/power-managment. Maybe for those who want to appreciate why display timing/performance is often less deterministic than one would hope to. ---
**Author:** ![mariokleiner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/13edae/32.png) [@mariokleiner](https://psychtoolbox.discourse.group/u/mariokleiner)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2020, 11:00am UTC](https://psychtoolbox.discourse.group/t/virtual-xdc2020-conference-live-stream-now-active/3404/10 "2020-09-18T11:00:54Z")
And the 3rd and final day of XDC starts live-streaming in 1 minute. Today it is a lot of talks about how graphics/display driver testing is done - or further improved - under Linux, to provide the superior experience that those people who already switched their Psychtoolbox to Linux are hopefully enjoying. Schedule: [https://xdc2020.x.org/event/9/timetable/#20200918.detailed](https://xdc2020.x.org/event/9/timetable/#20200918.detailed) Live-Stream: [![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/free1/uploads/psychtoolbox/original/1X/8e3317406c7a6a9648a550fe11bdf1058e4e1198.jpeg "XDC 2020 - Day 3 - September 18, 2020") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3gltQa-SiM) Enjoy! ---
**Author:** ![dcnieho](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/779978/32.png) [@dcnieho](https://psychtoolbox.discourse.group/u/dcnieho)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2020, 11:38am UTC](https://psychtoolbox.discourse.group/t/virtual-xdc2020-conference-live-stream-now-active/3404/11 "2020-09-18T11:38:18Z")
Cool, that seems very interesting. If i read right, there is nothing about automated on-hardware testing to see if results come out right, correct? Only the Weston thing (which is too late in the day for me sadly). Cheers, enjoy! ---
**Author:** ![mariokleiner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/13edae/32.png) [@mariokleiner](https://psychtoolbox.discourse.group/u/mariokleiner)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2020, 12:54pm UTC](https://psychtoolbox.discourse.group/t/virtual-xdc2020-conference-live-stream-now-active/3404/12 "2020-09-18T12:54:48Z")
All talks are also recorded and available on youtube at the end. As are the ones from the last couple of years. The testing topic is a topic every XDC of the last couple of years, so there’s days of talks and discussions to watch, mailing lists to read etc. It gets continuously refined. This is just the latest update…