On 2002.03.16 01:53 max wrote: > On Saturday 16 March 2002 00:37, you wrote: > > Max, > > > > It's impressive that you have pulled off a (almost) complete DRI driver > on > > your own! > > It is even more impressive if you think that I only studied philosophy > and > laws, and never took a class in CS... > > ...now that the game is (nearly) over I can admit: it was not easy. > > > Anyway, although I have no Virge I do have a Savage4. > > Big problem with Savage4 is weird documentation: some docs around the > world > are missing the 3d part --- mine luckily not, but it is still missing > some > infos, e.g. it just states that BCI index for z coord of vertex 0 is > 0x2h, > but doesn't tell me anything about the vertex structure. Should I suppose > it > is the same it was in Savage3D? Sure like hell BCI indices before the fog > tables are quite different ; ( Even worst: the register specs explain > nowhere > how to choose between different 3d primitives [are quad supported? and in > which flavours?]: what I am supposed to do? to guess? >
I have no information at all about the Savage chips. Are they freely available? Anyway, the utah-glx project supports it so it should be a valuable resource in that matter. > For the time being I will go back studying laws, after my July exams I > will > then come back to code (in the meanwhile I will plan the structure of the > Savage4 driver, and refine my knowledge of DRI/DRM and kernel skills). > > > meanwhile I'm convincing my little brother (which is 18, is crazy about > 3D > > I have got a younger bro too [actually very young, just 11], his > contribution > for the moment is limited to lending me psx games so that I can test my > 3d > drivers with them. He enjoys Linux more than windows (he didn't even want > me > to install the latter on his machine), so he has got good taste ; ) > Could you tell me what psx emulator are you using under linux? I'm curious about it... > Vale, > - max > Regards, José Fonseca _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
