Re: [Dri-devel] Build from CVS and Savage4 chipset.

2003-06-19 Thread Jos Fonseca
On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 11:07:37AM -0300, Maximo wrote: At 09:19 PM 17/6/2003, José Fonseca wrote: I already read the glossary but what i wanted to know is how the interact with each other and what kind of information do they deal with. I don't really understand them and I may

Re: [Dri-devel] Build from CVS and Savage4 chipset.

2003-06-18 Thread Maximo
At 09:19 PM 17/6/2003, José Fonseca wrote: I already read the glossary but what i wanted to know is how the interact with each other and what kind of information do they deal with. I don't really understand them and I may saying stupid things :). I understand that you're not familiar

Re: [Dri-devel] Build from CVS and Savage4 chipset.

2003-06-17 Thread Jos Fonseca
On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 11:35:03PM -0300, Maximo wrote: At 02:38 PM 15/6/2003, José Fonseca wrote: I also noticed in the savage DRM there is a BCI Initialization that there isn't in the others modules of other devices, what exactaly is that? Please read the archives about it

Re: [Dri-devel] Build from CVS and Savage4 chipset.

2003-06-17 Thread Maximo
At 05:06 PM 17/6/2003, Andreas Karrenbauer wrote: Hello, no it is not finished because it just supports one family of savage chips. I have a S3 Inc. VT8751 [ProSavageDDR P4M266]. If you look at the corresponding DDX code you will see that the waiting _for _idle is really a tricky thing

Re: [Dri-devel] Build from CVS and Savage4 chipset.

2003-06-17 Thread Jos Fonseca
On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 04:12:32PM -0300, Maximo wrote: At 02:31 PM 17/6/2003, you wrote: Reading the archives I notice that Andreas was working on wait for idle. Do you know if he finished that? What should be the next step? Since savage_bci.c doesn't have it, I conclude he

Re: [Dri-devel] Build from CVS and Savage4 chipset.

2003-06-17 Thread Maximo
At 02:31 PM 17/6/2003, you wrote: Reading the archives I notice that Andreas was working on wait for idle. Do you know if he finished that? What should be the next step? Since savage_bci.c doesn't have it, I conclude he didn't. IIRC what Andreas said at the time, the problem is that this

Re: [Dri-devel] Build from CVS and Savage4 chipset.

2003-06-16 Thread Maximo
At 02:38 PM 15/6/2003, José Fonseca wrote: I also noticed in the savage DRM there is a BCI Initialization that there isn't in the others modules of other devices, what exactaly is that? Please read the archives about it (it's just :

Re: [Dri-devel] Build from CVS and Savage4 chipset.

2003-06-15 Thread Jos Fonseca
On Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 01:55:02AM -0300, Maximo wrote: At 07:14 PM 14/6/2003, José Fonseca wrote: Where exactly savage driver stopped? on DDX driver? What does it still need coding? No. The work in the DDX driver is mostly finished. The DDX was already there (on the XFree86 driver) and

Re: [Dri-devel] Build from CVS and Savage4 chipset.

2003-06-15 Thread Maximo
At 06:04 AM 15/6/2003, José Fonseca wrote: The DRM is barely finished. It exists but it doesn't talk with the card at all yet. This is the kernel modules? Yes. DRM = kernel module The DRM modules to talk with the card, and what does 3D Driver do (xc/lib/GL/mesa/src/drv)? 3D Driver = libGL

Re: [Dri-devel] Build from CVS and Savage4 chipset.

2003-06-15 Thread Jos Fonseca
On Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 01:57:30PM -0300, Maximo wrote: This all mean that i need to work first on DRM module, and make it talk to the device and after that work on 3D drive to translate all requests to the DRM module. Is that correct? Nothing forces you to do that, but my advice

Re: [Dri-devel] Build from CVS and Savage4 chipset.

2003-06-14 Thread Maximo
At 08:56 PM 13/6/2003, José Fonseca wrote: On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 05:02:36PM -0300, Maximo wrote: José, I think i already read this FAQ twice, at least the sections where i think it was important, i'm not afraid of reading documentation neither FAQs, but i didn't understand it

Re: [Dri-devel] Build from CVS and Savage4 chipset.

2003-06-14 Thread Jos Fonseca
On Sat, Jun 14, 2003 at 06:08:00PM -0300, Maximo wrote: At 08:56 PM 13/6/2003, José Fonseca wrote: The DDX driver (the XFree86 2D driver) talks directly with the hardware, but for the 2D operations. Whenever 3D is going on the DDX does nothing except to wait for the 3D to finish. Where

Re: [Dri-devel] Build from CVS and Savage4 chipset.

2003-06-14 Thread Maximo
At 07:14 PM 14/6/2003, José Fonseca wrote: Where exactly savage driver stopped? on DDX driver? What does it still need coding? No. The work in the DDX driver is mostly finished. The DDX was already there (on the XFree86 driver) and it was only necessary to make DRI aware, i.e., to behave

Re: [Dri-devel] Build from CVS and Savage4 chipset.

2003-06-13 Thread Andreas Karrenbauer
José Fonseca wrote: 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

Re: [Dri-devel] Build from CVS and Savage4 chipset.

2003-06-13 Thread Maximo
José, 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

Re: [Dri-devel] Build from CVS and Savage4 chipset.

2003-06-13 Thread Maximo
Hi, I'm really interested but my knowledge about coding a driver is too limited, i would need some help first before doing any conding. bye. Max. At 12:54 PM 13/6/2003, Andreas Karrenbauer wrote: José Fonseca wrote: The second one is if there is anyone working on savage4

Re: [Dri-devel] Build from CVS and Savage4 chipset.

2003-06-13 Thread Jos Fonseca
On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 05:02:36PM -0300, Maximo wrote: José, I think i already read this FAQ twice, at least the sections where i think it was important, i'm not afraid of reading documentation neither FAQs, but i didn't understand it completlly, probably because of the language