On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 07:38:45PM +0000, Oliver McFadden wrote:
> On 4/23/07, Phillip Ezolt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Awesome.
> >
> > As an aside, I would really like to make it easier for other people to
> > hack on radeon & X.
> > I've been fighting with my Radeon 200M for months, hacking when I have
> > spare time.
> 
> I think we have similar goals here. I'm doing this to hopefully make reverse
> engineering a bit easier, and also to improve my knowledge of Radeon and R300.
> 
> I haven't yet tried my tool on R500 or above because I don't have an R500 card
> yet... I'll probably end up waiting for the work that Jerome Glisse et al are
> doing on R500 to become public. I think my tool should work there, too.

At the moment, we haven't got the ring buffer up (purely modesetting),
but hopefully it shouldn't be that difficult.

> I think that rules-ng is a better solution for me anyway. You can read about 
> it
> at http://nouveau.cvs.sourceforge.net/nouveau/rules-ng/. I just have to
> integrate it into my tool. Pekka Paalanen already modified mmio-parse to add
> support for rules-ng, so I'll probably look at this for ideas.

Indeed, we'll be using rules-ng for the r5xx stuff.  It would be nice if
we could reuse as much code as possible among the various
reverse-engineering efforts.

Cheers,
Daniel

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