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+[[meta title="LCA 2008 Update on EXA/i965"]]
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+[[tag exa performance xorg i965]]
+
+I'm definitely overdue as far as posting an update on the progress of
+the work we've been doing to improve EXA performance for the i965
+driver. And just yesterday, Benjamin Otte pointed out to me that it's
+really hard for many people to get any understanding at all about some
+of the work that's going on within the X.org development community.
+
+Part of my reply to Benjamin was that there were a lot of excellent
+talks given at LCA this year, (Keith Packard, Dave Airlie, Adam
+Jackson, Jesse Barnes, Peter Hutterer, Eric Anholt, and myself were
+all there talking about X in one for or another). And that is true,
+but it's also true that many people were not able to attend LCA to
+hear those talks. And while the LCA conference kindly posts [video of
+the talks](http://linux.conf.au/programme/presentations) that's not
+always the most desirable way of getting information when not at the
+conference in person.
+
+So I think it would be fair to see that we've been doing a poor job of
+providing easy-to-find information about what's going on with X. I
+definitely want to help improve that, and I even just got an official
+designation to do exactly that. I was recently elected to the X.org
+Board of Directors and also assigned to chair a Communications
+committed whose job it is to help X.org communicate more
+effectively. What can we do better? Please email me with your
+ideas.
+
+In the meantime, for my own part, I've just done a fairly thorough
+writeup of my [LCA talk](http://cworth.org/talks/lca_2008). That's
+something I've been wanting to get in the habit of doing for a
+while. One thing I can't stand is reading presentation slides that are
+almost content free---where clearly they weren't meant to stand alone
+but were meant to be accompanied by someone speaking for up to an
+hour. And I know I've been guilty of posting slides like that
+before. So this time, I've written some text that should stand alone
+quite well, (though, since I just wrote it today it might not
+correlate extremely well with what I said that day at LCA---but I've
+tried to address the same themes at least).