André Almeida | Igalia - Open Source Consultancy and Development

André Almeida

André Almeida (he/him)

Kernel hacker.

São Paulo (Brazil)

Free software activist and developer, really enjoys teaching programming and playing music.

POSTS

May 26, 2025

Linux 6.15, DRM scheduler, wedged events, sched_ext and more

The Linux 6.15 has just been released, bringing a lot of new features: nova-core, the “base” driver for the new NVIDIA GPU driver, written in Rust. nova project will eventually...

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Mar 28, 2025

Linux 6.14, an almost forgotten release

Linux 6.14 is the second release of 2025, and as usual Igalia took part on it. It’s a very normal release, except that it was release on Monday, instead of...

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Jan 20, 2025

Linux 6.13, I WANT A GUITAR PEDAL

Just as 2025 is starting, we got a new Linux release in mid January, tagged as 6.13. In the spirit of holidays, Linus Torvalds even announced during 6.13-rc6 that he...

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Media

Dealing with GPU resets

Nov 4, 2024

Async page flip in atomic API

Apr 25, 2024