Re: [Dri-devel] DRM/DRI porting guide?

2002-01-18 Thread Abraham vd Merwe
Hi Jens! So, the question is how to we get that process going. As a suggestion, maybe a weekly IRC meeting would help where new developers can ask the experts, and each other, questions about DRI, XFree or 3D graphics. I am sure it would be much easier for Darryl, Paul, or

Re: [Dri-devel] DRM/DRI porting guide?

2002-01-18 Thread Abraham vd Merwe
Hi Jens! Sure, Monday at 5pm pacific time works for me. We'll see how many questions do show up. If nothing else, we can catch up with the old team :-) Could we perhaps change this. All of us scattered around the middle of earth (europe, south africa, etc.) strikes that as

Re: [Dri-devel] DRM/DRI porting guide?

2002-01-18 Thread Jens Owen
Abraham vd Merwe wrote: Hi Jens! Sure, Monday at 5pm pacific time works for me. We'll see how many questions do show up. If nothing else, we can catch up with the old team :-) Could we perhaps change this. All of us scattered around the middle of earth (europe, south

Re: [Dri-devel] DRM/DRI porting guide?

2002-01-17 Thread Kevin E Martin
On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 07:58:01AM -0700, Brian Paul wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay, sorry, I just had to laugh. Not your fault, I admit that. You are as innocent as I used to be. Here's the deal bro: [RANT MODE ON] [...] [RANT MODE OFF] Finale: Anyone:

Re: [Dri-devel] DRM/DRI porting guide?

2002-01-17 Thread Lincoln, Michael C
This may be OT... On Thu, 2002-01-17 at 14:58, Brian Paul wrote: [snip] I think I'm one of the few who still reads this list. [snip] We thought it was more important to invest our time in the drivers and infrastructure code than writing/updating design documents. The DRI is very

Re: [Dri-devel] DRM/DRI porting guide?

2002-01-17 Thread Daryll Strauss
On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 02:40:15AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay, sorry, I just had to laugh. Not your fault, I admit that. You are as innocent as I used to be. Here's the deal bro: Now I'm going to turn this around a bit. You've already seen the answers from most of us. We're

Re: [Dri-devel] DRM/DRI porting guide?

2002-01-17 Thread John Utz
i wont mess with trying to respond in line. but i have been lurking on this list for the last year ( which is more of an investment than you might think! ) and it appears that adoniz makes some valid points, tho perhaps in an overly vigourous fashion. :-) well, every OS project is different (

Re: [Dri-devel] DRM/DRI porting guide?

2002-01-17 Thread David Johnson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Dri-devel] DRM/DRI porting guide? Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 09:56:03 -0800 On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 02:40:15AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay, sorry, I just had to laugh. Not your fault, I admit

Re: [Dri-devel] DRM/DRI porting guide?

2002-01-17 Thread John Utz
this is actually sufficient for me at this point. tnx! johnu ps: you might think of pasting this part of your response the into the dri homepage, it would save a bit of bandwidth perhaps: All OpenGL drivers are made up of 3 parts: A DRI aware 2D driver which lives in

Re: [Dri-devel] DRM/DRI porting guide?

2002-01-17 Thread Daryll Strauss
On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 08:01:14PM +, David Johnson wrote: So, the question is how to we get that process going. As a suggestion, maybe a weekly IRC meeting would help where new developers can ask the experts, and each other, questions about DRI, XFree or 3D graphics. I am sure it

RE: [Dri-devel] DRM/DRI porting guide?

2002-01-17 Thread Gareth Hughes
Brian Paul wrote: Even before VA Linux laid-off everyone we were losing momentum on the DRI project because the engineers had to work on other projects that generated revenue. After everyone was laid-off we all went in different directions. I think I'm one of the few who still reads this

Re: [Dri-devel] DRM/DRI porting guide?

2002-01-17 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Thu, 2002-01-17 at 21:28, Daryll Strauss wrote: On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 08:01:14PM +, David Johnson wrote: So, the question is how to we get that process going. As a suggestion, maybe a weekly IRC meeting would help where new developers can ask the experts, and each other,

Re: [Dri-devel] DRM/DRI porting guide?

2002-01-17 Thread Jens Owen
Ian D Romanick wrote: It might be better to gradually add documentation to the source that could be automatically be extracted... I agree. Developers are *much* more likely to keep the inline documentation up to date. Downside is the documentation becomes very blocky and it's difficult to

Re: [Dri-devel] DRM/DRI porting guide?

2002-01-17 Thread Michael
On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 02:15:32PM -0800, Gareth Hughes wrote: To continue the comparisons with the kernel, how much documentation do you think there is on the bleeding-edge work being done by the core developers? Is there a How To Hack On The New 2.4.10 VM document anywhere? Or Ten Easy

[Dri-devel] DRM/DRI porting guide?

2002-01-15 Thread John Utz
greetings; i am interested in writing the bits required to get dri working on the SiS 630E (which evidently contains an SiS300 and SiS 301, among other things) on FreeBSD. It's my understanding that this chipset is supported under Linux, but i havent poked around in the tree yet. is there such