Re: R300 progress/help wanted

[Vladimir D. <vo...@mi...>]

A small update:

      I also made a r300_demo program that paints some triangles - it 
should be easier to setup than drmtest. This program should work on Radeon 
Mobility M10 cards (i.e. RV350).

                              best

                                Vladimir Dergachev

On Sat, 11 Sep 2004, Vladimir Dergachev wrote:

>
> Hi all,
>
>   I have made some moderate progress in getting R300 3d to play nicely,
> you can see the results at
>
>   http://volodya-project.sf.net/R300.php
>
>   So people with Radeon R300 or later cards that want to experiment with
> their powerful GPUs can try out the code and mess with it at the level fairly 
> close to hardware, but not so close as to require a register manual
> (which we don't have).
>
>   In particular two tools are now available:
>
>        glxtest - allows to exercise any 3d driver and dump contents
>                  of memory maps produced by 3d drawing commands.
>
>                  There is a small utility to pretty print
>                  Radeon command stream and autogenerate C code
>                  based on it.
>
>        drmtest - paints a triangle and a square using RV350 GPU,
>
>   In order to better understand what is going on it helps to go to
>   Microsoft site and read up on DirectX 9.0 - these cards were meant
>   to work with it and thus many formats (and calls) are accepted as is.
>
>   In essense, description of DirectX 9.0 programmable shaders is a
>   high-level description of the hardware - which is not that high, more
>   like knee-level.
>
>   Also you might find examining the sources (or, at least, register
>   headers) of Radeon drivers (Xorg, DRI, DRM, etc) useful.
>
>                     have fun !
>
>                          Vladimir Dergachev
>
>
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