On Sat, 12 May 2007 18:23:22 +0100 Chris Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sat, May 12, 2007 at 07:37:06PM +0300, Pekka Paalanen wrote: > > I have started a page aimed to be an introduction to working with > > (Nouveau) graphics from the driver side. I do not know what I am > > missing and what is relevant, so I'd like to have comments or people > > could improve the page themselves. > > > > http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/IntroductoryCourse > > A few months ago someone called Honza Havlicek was working on a wiki > page to try and document the nVidia architecture, which he called > "Developer Guidebook". It's at: > http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/HonzaHavlicek > > I e-mailed Honza a few days ago to ask if he's still interested in > hacking on nouveau, but no reply yet. Yes, I thought about linking that, but since there are those notes "do not read this", I did not. > I also found this document recently: > http://rivatv.sourceforge.net/stuff/riva128.txt I already linked to that. > It's outdated, but the "Example: How to render a solid rectangle?" > section makes a lot of sense. Between Honza's description of the > MMIO registers and the functional descriptions at the URL above, I > think we could get to a point where we're able to explain how > rendering works to someone sufficiently interested. :) I do not think I have yet time to start really reading and writing documentation. To be honest, I have not read all the articles I put a link to. This was just a quick idea from my side. -- Pekka "PQ" Paalanen http://www.iki.fi/pq/ _______________________________________________ Nouveau mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/nouveau
