On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 12:12:02AM -0700, Maarten Lankhorst wrote: > Hey, > > Op 24-09-13 06:44, Andy Ritger schreef: > > Hi Nouveau developers, > > > > NVIDIA is releasing public documentation on certain aspects of our GPUs, > > with the intent to address areas that impact the out-of-the-box usability > > of NVIDIA GPUs with Nouveau. We intend to provide more documentation > > over time, and guidance in additional areas as we are able. > > > > As a first step towards that, we've posted a document here: > > > > ftp://download.nvidia.com/open-gpu-doc/DCB/1/DCB-4.0-Specification.html > > > > that documents the Device Control Block ("DCB") layout in the VBIOS. > > The DCB describes board topology and the board's display connectors. > > > > I suspect much of the information in that document is not news for > > the Nouveau community, but hopefully it will be helpful to confirm your > > understanding or flesh out the implementation of a few unhandled cases. > > > > A few of us who work on NVIDIA's proprietary Linux GPU driver will pay > > attention to nouveau@lists.freedesktop.org and try to chime in when > > we can. > > > > If there are specific areas of documentation that would most help you, that > > feedback would help NVIDIA prioritize our documentation efforts. > > > > If you have specific questions for NVIDIA, you can ask here, or direct > > them to: open-gpu-...@nvidia.com.
Sorry, I got the email address wrong. The right address is: gpu-public-documentat...@nvidia.com sorry I didn't double check the address before sending the announcement. > > I can't promise we'll be able to answer > > everything, but we'll provide best-effort in areas where we are able. > You rock! :D :) Thanks, Maarten. > Our biggest struggle at the moment is the video clocking and power > management, which is highly device specific > and depends on configuration too. Those will be two of the more difficult areas for us to address, but we'll see what can be done. > A complete video bios documentation would be nice too, I understand that will > take a bit longer than just the dcb. :) BIOS-related information should be a bit easier to get through the pipeline than other things, so we'll focus on that to start. I'm looking forward to collaborating with you guys, - Andy > ~Maarten _______________________________________________ Nouveau mailing list Nouveau@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/nouveau