A Bug's Life: Fixing an 11-Year-Old Mesa3D EGL Standard Bug

Explore a fascinating conference talk from XDC 2024 that chronicles an 11-year-old bug's journey in Mesa3D, which significantly impacted the adoption of EGL standards. Follow along as speakers David Heidelberg and Enrico Nunes detail the complex debugging process, involving extensive code modifications, CI testing implementations, and the development of a new display extension. Learn how the open-source driver community's collaborative efforts and CI infrastructure capabilities proved instrumental in resolving this long-standing issue - achievements that would have been impossible within closed-source proprietary driver systems.