People, when you reply, please drop nouveau@ from CC list, as this is not Nouveau-specific.
My comments are mixed in the first quoted e-mail. Thanks. On Thu, 05 Jul 2007 09:35:24 +0800 "xiao dan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear Sir: > Thanks a lot for your reply.Here is the details: > 1>The hardware we have now is the ATI Radeon 9000(For > 1>students,money > is the biggest problem). Nouveau deals with Nvidia graphics. Proprietary Radeon drivers work a little different and the radeon project uses different reverse engineering tools. I do not know much about those. > 2>The operating system we currently use is Redhat 9.0. You do know this OS died in 2004 and even Fedora Legacy shut down early this year? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Hat_Linux > 3>What exactly we want to do is to get the work mechanism of the > 3>ATI > driver from the binary codes under the OS. What do you mean by this? Are you proposing to clean-room reverse engineer (possibly disassemble) the proprietary driver, and write the documentation for someone else, who will then write a driver? There are legal issues involved, so please be very specific about what you want to do, or are going to do. It may make the difference between your contribution being a valuable benefit or completely useless for the community. You also said you are a graduate student. Is this supposed to be related your scientific work, and how? As far as I can tell, there already are (fully?) working open source radeon drivers for 9000 cards. http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/ATI I do not know much about the radeon development, but I'm sure you find the people on dri-devel mailing list (CC'd here). Perhaps The irregular Radeon Development Companion can provide you more pointers: http://tirdc.livejournal.com/ > 4>The members of our team are all students.We are interested in > 4>this. > The biggest problem for us is that how to get the work mechanism > of the driver from the binary codes or how the dirver works in the > linux. Waiting for your reply thirstily! Thanks a lot! > yours, > shadow > > > >From: Pekka Paalanen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >To: "xiao dan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Subject: Re: [Nouveau] Question About The Steps > >Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2007 12:41:17 +0300 > > > >On Wed, 04 Jul 2007 10:47:46 +0800 > >"xiao dan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Dear Sir: > > > Sorry to bother you! I am a graduate student in China,and my > > > team is currently working on the video card driver. Our target is > > > that the result we get can be used in some kind of Operating > > > System like linux. As newers,the biggest problom for us is that > > > the steps to do the work is not very clear. It will be very kind > > > of you to give us a picture of the proceeding. We have the basic > > > knowledge,but don't know which point to start. > > > >Hello, > > > >at least I did not really understand your question, so I'm asking > >more details. > > > >By the video card driver do you mean Nouveau? > >What hardware are you working with? > >By operating system do you mean specifically Linux, or *BSD or > >something else? > >What is it exactly what you want to do? > >Would you be contributing to the Nouveau code base, under the > >propriate licenses and legal terms? > > > >Thanks. > > -- Pekka "PQ" Paalanen http://www.iki.fi/pq/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ -- _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
