On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 2:44 PM, Andy Ritger <arit...@nvidia.com> wrote: > > Hi Nouveau developers, Hey Andy, and all you other NVIDIA guys :)
This was a very pleasant shock over breakfast this morning, and is very much appreciated! I look forward to seeing how we can all work together in the future! Thanks again, Ben. > > NVIDIA is releasing public documentation on certain aspects of our GPUs, > with the intent to address areas that impact the out-of-the-box usability > of NVIDIA GPUs with Nouveau. We intend to provide more documentation > over time, and guidance in additional areas as we are able. > > As a first step towards that, we've posted a document here: > > ftp://download.nvidia.com/open-gpu-doc/DCB/1/DCB-4.0-Specification.html > > that documents the Device Control Block ("DCB") layout in the VBIOS. > The DCB describes board topology and the board's display connectors. > > I suspect much of the information in that document is not news for > the Nouveau community, but hopefully it will be helpful to confirm your > understanding or flesh out the implementation of a few unhandled cases. > > A few of us who work on NVIDIA's proprietary Linux GPU driver will pay > attention to nouveau@lists.freedesktop.org and try to chime in when > we can. > > If there are specific areas of documentation that would most help you, that > feedback would help NVIDIA prioritize our documentation efforts. > > If you have specific questions for NVIDIA, you can ask here, or direct > them to: open-gpu-...@nvidia.com. I can't promise we'll be able to answer > everything, but we'll provide best-effort in areas where we are able. > > Thanks, > - Andy Ritger > > _______________________________________________ > Nouveau mailing list > Nouveau@lists.freedesktop.org > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/nouveau _______________________________________________ Nouveau mailing list Nouveau@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/nouveau