(snip) > The kernel side happens in ON, so that update won't appear in the X > changelogs - I was hoping the DRI team who works on that would respond > with some idea about their schedule, or even a polite "We're not working > on it, don't wait" message, since they know that. (As far as I know > it's not planned for anytime soon, but I don't know when it is planned for.) > >> I already started learning ATI's GPU R3xx/R5xx series architecture >> to be able to create driver on my own. Also, I started to learn >> Gallium3D architecture because it is future of driver development >> model. Also, I hoped that someone already did drivers now. > > Why would you need to learn to create a driver instead of just working > on porting the existing driver to the OpenSolaris kernel? The current > DRI/DRM kernel modules were ports from the open source community project, > not new drivers written just for OpenSolaris.
When I joined to the community my basic drives were to be useful to the community and to learn as much as possible from the community, since in my country there are no experts in areas like SunOS, X Window System, etc. There are people who knows about that, but do not know details. My intention is to spend my 'spare time' learning this technologies as much as possible. Also, I'm strong follower of Prof. Donald Knuth, so everything I want to do - I want to be well prepared for it before I start. Porting drivers is not just like taking bricks from one building and sticking them to another. Any piece of code should be done more like a 'piece of art', and whole system should behave like a 'symphonic orchestra'. This approach gives less bugs, less problems, because its model is well designed. These ideas drives me when I do programing. Hope this helps to understand me better :). Uros Nedic, MSc Belgrade, Serbia > > -- > -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com > Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering > _________________________________________________________________ With Windows Live, you can organize, edit, and share your photos. http://www.microsoft.com/middleeast/windows/windowslive/products/photo-gallery-edit.aspx
