On Tue, 2002-06-18 at 17:31, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi, I'm working at a University where they would like me to start the
> development of video drivers for a ATI Radeon or 3Dlabs card to run on Alpha
> Linux(Red Hat).
I'd expect the radeon driver to work on alpha, have you tried it?
> I've read all the documentation on your website, and some more general
> information in other places but I'm having a problem seeing where to start. The
> documentation on the website is more of an overview(big picture) of DRI, rather
> than details of what needs to be implemented and how to implement them in the
> drivers and so I'm completely stuck.
>
> I've taken a look at some of the code, specifcally for the i810 card as is
> suggested for beginners but its hard to make much sense out of it when
> commenting and documentation of code is very sparse. How am I supposed to know
> what functions need to be implemented or even their prototypes.
>
> Any help would be of great assistance, as right now I'm just completely lost
In case it doesn't work yet, fixing it (for powerpc) has been a good way
for me to get familiar with it.
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Earthling Michel D�nzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast
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