Lustyik, On 2002.03.18 03:17 Alexander Stohr wrote: > > i'm really curious whether i can join the project. i have > > fine c/ c++ knowledge, but i haven't programmed under linux > > yet (but now it's time to change). my question is first of > > all, do i need special skills/knowledge (apart from above) > > to participate in the development; and, is there anyone to > > help me make the first steps?
Please take a look to the DRI Developer FAQ (http://dri.sourceforge.net/doc/faq/) - it answers to most of these questions. > > Start at any point where you think you should start up. > Maybe you want see the documentation first or you might > want to concentrate on some simple source first, like > the drivers vor SVGA or alikes. Or get a recent snapshot > from CVS repository and try compile the drivers for some > of your hardware yourselves so you can see if it is working. > (Yes, good beta testers are a needed resource as well.) > > If not, go on and see what is needed for fixing. Or add > features that are present elswhere or that do make it to > your mind whilst reading the documentation that you got. > > > personally, i'm interested in developing dri drivers to s3 > > (savage4) cards because i find it annoying that they're not > > actually supported. > > The savage series of grafics adapters was recently discussed in short. > It might turn out that a driver project for it will launch in end of > summer or later. This is due to other projects and persons normal life. > > Finally, be aware, that bringing your card up for i.e. 2D might > still take some 6 months and then basic 3D might take another > 6 to 12 months. I dont tell you this because i want to scare you > but because its really longterm work. The "two hours and works" > situation wont happen often. > > Regards Alex. > Just want to point that accelerated 2D drivers for the Savage4 chip is already there in XFree86. So the first initial chunk of work would be to come up with a bootstrap driver, i.e., make the current X 2D driver DRI-aware, create a DRM with the default templates, and create a DRI mesa driver with software callbacks. The best thing to guide on this process is the existing drivers. I don't know which of the current suported chips is similar to Savage4. There is recent work on S3 Virge chips, and the Utah-GLX project supports the Savage3D chip - both these could be handy. Of course that specs will be quite nice, but I don't know what is the availability of them. Anyway, I also think that in the beginning you really should start with making some reading as indicated in the "Suggested reading" section of the FAQ. Regards, José Fonseca __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
