Re: [Dri-devel] Databook and goal of Silicon Motion, Inc Lynx3DM (SM720) DRI driver

[Mike W. <we...@cs...>]

Rick Jones wrote:

>I have acquired a Silicon Motion, Inc. Lynx3DM (SM720)
>chip databook.  I have a board with shared video
>memory and 4MB on the chip.
>
You don't describe the circumstances under which you acquired
the databook, but you should be -real sure- that the company won't
take offense before you make any releated code available.

>
>
>My plans are..
>1. Making a minor patch to the XFree driver for this
>chip (to do a Left/Right mirror image).
>  -- I hope to get my feet wet so to say with
>communicating with this chip with this.
>

Some would say there is no such thing as a "minor" patch to 
XFree...especially
the first patch, but that is a sensible approach.

>
>
>2. Making a DRI driver for this chip.
>
>Considering this is a completely NEW driver for this
>project, is it better to make a preliminary driver
>first before getting cvs access to commit?
>
YES!!  You should be able to build it and test it in every torturous
way you can think of before even thinking of committing it.

>
>
>Rick
>
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