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2025 Display Next Hackfest

About

The Display Next Hackfest is an event where talented developers will gather to explore the latest technologies and trends in the Linux Display Stack. It has an unconference format where participants propose topics for presenting, roadmapping, discussing and examining together. It aims to unblock bottlenecks, design solutions, raise pitfalls and accommodate the needs of each layer of the display stack. Participants should feel free to propose any topic which interests them. Some topics from the previous edition include: HDR and color management, frame timing and variable refresh rate (VRR), atomic flips, backlight control, testing and CI, etc.

Where and When

Date: July 8-10 (Tue-Thu), 2025

Location: AMD is hosting the 2025 Display Next Hackfest in Markham at the AMD office:

AMD Markham
1 Commerce Valley Drive E.
Markham ON
Canada

Plans and Goals

  1. Keep moving! Continue your work on upstream design, implementation and documentation until the hackfest.
  2. “Are you okay with that?” Present the current status of your work, explain decisions, concerns and results. Let’s compromise.
  3. Share your pains. What is well aligned with the generic approach? What is not (singularities) and how can we find room for it? Whatever your doubts, we resolve them together!
  4. “Something went wrong.” Share failing tests or inconsistent results. Let’s take a look together and find how to overcome them!

The hackfest will last three days following an “Unconference” format. Check the event timetable and agenda below.

Information about the previous years can be found at

Timetable

TBD

Agenda

The Agenda is driven by all interested parties. Please add agenda items on the Topics & Talks wiki and indicate whether you’ll be able to lead or co-lead an item.

Participants

Please add yourself to the List of Participants and indicate your planned arrival departure data or whether you’ll be attending remotely.

Hotels

Both of these hotels are right next door to the AMD office:

These are also within a short walk from the office:

You should be able to ask for AMD corporate rates at these hotels. I’m happy to send you the corporate rates if you need but don’t want to advertise them in public. If you have problems booking the hotel our office admin can help with that with check-in/out dates, names, and credit card info.

How to Get Here

By Air

Fly into Pearson International Airport (YYZ).

Then take the Go Bus #40 from Pearson Terminal 1 to Richmond Hill Centre. It comes roughly every half an hour during the day.

Go Bus #40

From Richmond Hill Centre take the purple line to Leslie.

Viva purple map snippet

By Train

Take a train (VIA Rail, or Amtrak) to Union Station in Toronto. Then take the subway up to Finch station, the Viva Blue to Richmond Hill Centre, and the Viva Purple to Leslie.

By Car

Punch the address below into your SatNav and go. Select “Avoid Tolls” and avoid getting onto Hwy 407 to avoid exorbitant tolls. All the other roads in the area are toll free, though quite busy.

1 Commerce Valley Drive E.
Markham ON
Canada

Code of Conduct

Details to be determined.

We’ll be fleshing out CoC details in the next little while and will be looking at Igalia’s CoC from last year as well as X.Org’s CoC for reference.