Thank you for the answer and i really want to help developing the savage drivers even not knowing much about coding drivers but I will try to learn, until i can walk by my own feet I will appreciate some help.
I read some FAQs and DOCs on dri.sourceforge.net but i'm still a little confused with all these words: DRI, DRM, Mesa, DDX etc. and i would like guidance about that and if possible tell they interact with each other in a few words.
Because of this little confusion i don't know exactly where I should start from. Any help?
Max.
At 06:12 AM 13/6/2003, you wrote:
On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 12:10:10AM -0300, Maximo wrote:
> I'm new here and i don't know much about developing drivers but i
> really would like to learn, and i'm sorry for the silly questions that i
> may ask.
>
> The first question is about building the binaries after getting
> the source from CVS, it's only "make World" and "make install", how do
> "make" knows witch card do i have or it just build everything and copy them
> to the right place?
It builds almost everything.
> My concern here is if "make install" may "destroy" my > Xfree installation, I would prefer putting the binaries by hand, so that i > could undo if something went wrong.
In these cases you install in a seperate directory. See http://www.retinalburn.net/linux/dri_HOWTO.html - it's for Mach64 but it applies to Savage if you replace mach64-0-0-x-branch by savage-0-0-1-branch.
> > The second one is if there is anyone working on savage4 drivers,
The Savage driver was started by me but I've haven't worked on it for a long time. Andreas Karrenbauer has step in and made alot of work on the DDX and bootstraped the DRM but there hasn't been any changes lately. Many other people showed interested.
> and where can i found some material about developing drivers?
Read the DRI Devel FAQ: http://dri.sf.net/doc/faq and other documents at http://dri.sf.net/doc
> At first I > will try to test it and then try to help who is writing this driver.
I'd say that the main requisite to write a driver is determination. It's a very difficult and long task, and the early state of the Savage DRI driver create a thick wall to break in.
In any case I'm available to provide any guidance necessary - but I don't have the time to code on the driver myself.
José Fonseca
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