On Sun, 21 Feb 2010 12:26:18 +0100 Florian Mickler <flor...@mickler.org> wrote:
> On Sun, 21 Feb 2010 01:12:56 +0100 > Attila Kinali <att...@kinali.ch> wrote: > > This depends on your ability to understand the code. > > Although i was the maintainer of the mga_vid driver > > (a specialized video overlay driver for matrox cards), > > i was not able to fix the many bugs in the mga driver of xorg. > > The code was so convoluted that i couldnt even figure out how > > it could be working in the first place. Hence i gave up on it. > > > > IMHO xorg (and many other projects) reached a state of > > code complexity that makes it very difficult for newcomers > > to enter. You've to invest huge amounts of time to even get > > an overview how the code works. Making it nearly impossible > > to enter for anyone who doesn't have a lot of time which > > he can freely spend on coding. > > > > Attila Kinali > > > > Yeah. I looked at it myself... One problem I faced was that one needs > to understand the xserver<->driver interface before being able to do > anything. To do this, there should be (and probably is?) a > documentation about the xserver inner workings... > > cheers, > Flo found it: http://www.x.org/wiki/Development , nice. let's see... _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list xorg@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
