Platform/GFX

Details on the active work

You can find today's daily stand-up notes here, and the daily archive here.

Incoming bugs triage

Development Planning

• Prioritized List
• Intern Project List
• OpenGL ES accelerated layers syncup meeting
• BugKill - make our bug lists containable in one person's head
• Convert code to the new 2D API - the second phase of the Azure project
• Things that were being considered for 2013 and later
• https://wiki.mozilla.org/Gecko:AcceleratedFilters

Feature Planning

• Hardware Acceleration
• Layer API
• Responsiveness
• PerformanceToDo
• Firefox.next
• OpenGL Layers on Mobile
• Off Main Thread Compositing
• WebCL
• WebGL
• X11 GL Layers
• Fonts
• MobileGPUs
• Imagelib
• Gralloc
• Surfaces

Recent projects

SkiaGL

• Joint effort with Fennec, Taipei teams
• Taipei visited Toronto, May 13-17, 2013
• Toronto et al. visited Taipei May 20-24, 2013
• Visiting Skia team in Chapel Hill, August 5-6, 2013
• See Mobile SkiaGL page
• Some notes about Gralloc

Scrolling (async, subframe panning)

• B2G (performance) target applications: gallery, contacts, applist, browser, e-mail see here for details
• Async pan zoom

Rendering (Layout + Graphics) Meetings

Biweekly meetings

2014 Q1	2014 Q2	2014 Q3	2014 Q4
13 January 2014 27 January 2014 10 February 2014 24 February 2014 10 March 2014 24 March 2014	21 April 2014 5 May 2014
2013 Q1	2013 Q2	2013 Q3	2013 Q4
7 January 2013 4 February 2013 19 February 2013 4 March 2013 18 March 2013	2 April 2013 22 April 2013 6 May 2013 13 May 2013 3 June 2013 17 June 2013	11 July 2013 15 July 2013 29 July 2013 12 August 2013 26 August 2013 9 September 2013 23 September 2013	7 October 2013 21 October 2013 4 November 2013 18 November 2013 2 December 2013 16 December 2013
2012 Q1	2012 Q2	2012 Q3	2012 Q4
9 January 2012 16 January 2012 23 January 2012 30 January 2012 6 February 2012 13 February 2012 21 February 2012 27 February 2012 5 March 2012 12 March 2012 19 March 2012 26 March 2012	2 April 2012 10 April 2012 16 April 2012 23 April 2012 30 April 2012 7 May 2012 7 May 2012 GFX Priorities 14 May 2012 22 May 2012 4 June 2012 11 June 2012 18 June 2012 25 June 2012	9 July 2012 30 July 2012 13 August 2012 20 August 2012 27 August 2012 10 September 2012 24 September 2012	1 October 2012 15 October 2012 22 October 2012 5 November 2012 26 November 2012 10 December 2012

2008-2011

• 19 December 2011
• 12 December 2011
• 5 December 2011
• 28 November 2011
• 21 November 2011
• 7 November 2011
• 31 October 2011
• 28 October 2011 WebGL security review
• 24 October 2011
• 17 October 2011
• 11 October 2011
• 3 October 2011
• 26 September 2011
• 19 September 2011
• 13 September 2011 informal meeting with Apple and Google engineers
• 6 September 2011
• 29 August 2011
• 22 August 2011
• 15 August 2011
• 8 August 2011
• 2 August 2011
• 25 July 2011
• 11 July 2011
• 29 June 2011 WebGL security review
• 27 June 2011
• 20 June 2011
• 13 June 2011
• 6 June 2011
• 30 May 2011
• 24 May 2011
• 16 May 2011
• 9 May 2011
• 2 May 2011
• 18 April 2011
• 28 March 2011
• 3 January 2011
• 30 August 2010
• 23 August 2010
• 16 August 2010
• 9 August 2010
• 2 August 2010
• 26 July 2010
• 19 July 2010
• 12 July 2010
• 28 June 2010
• 21 June 2010
• 14 June 2010
• 7 June 2010
• 31 May 2010
• 24 May 2010
• 17 May 2010
• 10 May 2010
• 3 May 2010
• 26 Apr 2010
• 19 Apr 2010
• 12 Apr 2010
• 5 Apr 2010
• 29 Mar 2010
• 22 Mar 2010
• 15 Mar 2010
• 8 Mar 2010
• 1 Mar 2010
• 15 Feb 2010
• 8 Feb 2010
• 1 Feb 2010
• 25 Jan 2010
• 18 Jan 2010
• 11 Jan 2010
• 04 Jan 2010
• 21 Dec 2009
• 14 Dec 2009
• 30 Nov 2009
• 23 Nov 2009
• 16 Nov 2009
• 9 Nov 2009
• 2 Nov 2009
• 26 Oct 2009
• 19 Oct 2009
• 12 Oct 2009
• 5 Oct 2009
• 28 Sep 2009
• 21 Sep 2009
• 14 Sep 2009
• 7 Sep 2009
• 31 Aug 2009
• 17 Aug 2009
• 10 Aug 2009
• 3 Aug 2009
• 27 July 2009
• 20 July 2009
• 13 July 2009
• 6 July 2009
• 29 Jun 2009
• 22 Jun 2009
• 15 Jun 2009
• 8 Jun 2009
• 1 Jun 2009
• 25 May 2009
• 18 May 2009
• 11 May 2009
• 4 May 2009
• 20 Apr 2009
• 13 Apr 2009
• 6 Apr 2009
• 30 Mar 2009
• 23 Mar 2009
• 16 Mar 2009
• 9 Mar 2009
• 2 Mar 2009
• 23 Feb 2009
• 16 Feb 2009
• 9 Feb 2009
• 2 Feb 2009
• 26 Jan 2009
• 19 Jan 2009
• 12 Jan 2009
• 5 Jan 2009
• 15 Dec 2008
• 8 Dec 2008
• 1 Dec 2008
• 17 Nov 2008
• 10 Nov 2008
• 3 Nov 2008
• 20 Oct 2008
• 13 Oct 2008
• 6 Oct 2008
• 29 Sep 2008
• 22 Sep 2008
• 15 Sep 2008
• 8 Sep 2008
• 2 Sep 2008
• 19 Aug 2008
• 12 Aug 2008
• 5 Aug 2008
• 22 July 2008
• 15 July 2008

Work weeks

• 2014: March
• 2013: May, October

Various useful documentation pages

• QA Page
• Rendering channel on AirMozilla
• Gralloc
• Optimus
• HWComposer
• Mobile GPUs
• Texture sharing, new vs. deprecated textures
• Moz2D
• Available Hardware List
• Hardware Limitations
• Graphics Overview
• Async Panning and Zooming
• Documenting Design
• [Sample Tutorial]
• Some design topics
• WebGL
• Gfx Telemetry Dashboard
• Telemetry Use
• Blog post on APZ on Desktop
• Firefox OS Graphics inside
• Gecko shutdown
• Shmem in Gfx
• Quantum Render
• Device Reset Debugging