Re: [GSOC] greetings
On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 8:42 AM, Антонов Николай osti...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, all! I am Antonov Nikolay. I am s third year student of Computer Science in Kostroma State Technological University, Russian Federation. And I would like to take part in GSOC 2011 in xorg project. I realy like 2 ideas: 1) Open Source PRIME multi-gpu support 2) Support Graphics Card hot-switch. Both have similar idea but different implementation. First already have pice of code(it would be a nice start point!). But I think that copying data from one video card to another is bad idea(it is slowdown performance and integrate card never poweroff). So, second idea looks better (but it seems harder). So I was going to drop these from the project list this year as I'm not sure I can wait :-) I also wasn't planning on offering to mentor this year due to personal time reasons, but maybe I'll change my mind, I need to lookup the dates for GSOC. wrt to these two projects, the PRIME work is currently being redone, I was able to play openarena on an nv50 displaying on an ironlake yesterday afternoon. I'm also hoping Ben can get the nvidia PCOPY engine going. I'm hoping to push the various bits upstream on this effort and at try and figure out how to configure things for users. I'll hopefully write up a design document so people can review the design before I push the code out. The hot-switch work is a lot more work, we really need to implement ARB_robustness extension in the GL drivers we care about, and then port compositors to use the GLX_create_context API so the composting can handle the GPU switch happening. I've got most of the X server side duplication working but there is a lot of validation of a lot of corner cases to be done before I'd be happy pushing it (in my dynerama branch of my Xserver). I'm also pursuing GPU hotplug efforts with the USB gpu, and I'm sort of thinking the X server needs a lot of rework to get all of this going. Dave. ___ xorg@lists.freedesktop.org: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg Info: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg Your subscription address: arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [GSOC] greetings
Welcome - we're glad to have students showing interest in our GSoC projects, and got official confirmation today that X.Org has been accepted as a mentoring organization into the GSoC program this year. I've cc'ed the xorg-devel mailing list, since you'll have a much easier time connecting with the developers there than on the general end-user support mailing list of xorg@... Those projects probably also cross over into the area covered by the dri-devel mailing list as well, since the DRI/DRM drivers on the kernel side are covered there. -Alan Coopersmith-alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System On 03/16/11 03:42 PM, Антонов Николай wrote: Hello, all! I am Antonov Nikolay. I am s third year student of Computer Science in Kostroma State Technological University, Russian Federation. And I would like to take part in GSOC 2011 in xorg project. I realy like 2 ideas: 1) Open Source PRIME multi-gpu support 2) Support Graphics Card hot-switch. Both have similar idea but different implementation. First already have pice of code(it would be a nice start point!). But I think that copying data from one video card to another is bad idea(it is slowdown performance and integrate card never poweroff). So, second idea looks better (but it seems harder). I didn't take part in well-known opensources project yet. But I have own opensource project[1] written in C (it is pidgin/libpurple protocol-plugin for russian IM service). I have experience with svn/git and mailing lists ;-) PS: in xorg gsoc wiki[2] 2010 Ideas meets twice. This is confusing. [1] http://code.google.com/p/mrim-prpl/ [2] http://xorg.freedesktop.org/wiki/SummerOfCodeIdeas Antonov Nikolay ___ xorg@lists.freedesktop.org: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg Info: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg Your subscription address: alan.coopersm...@oracle.com ___ xorg@lists.freedesktop.org: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg Info: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg Your subscription address: arch...@mail-archive.com
