Re: [Mesa3d-dev] GSOC: Gallium R300 driver

[Tom S. <tst...@gm...>]

On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 03:25:04PM -0700, Corbin Simpson wrote:
> 
> If you're not sure how the actual video card works,
> http://www.x.org/wiki/Development/Documentation/HowVideoCardsWork is a
> great starting point. Of particular interest is the 3D engine; r300g
> only talks to the 3D part of the video card.
> 
> The reference Gallium driver is probably identity, although softpipe
> is a good reference as well. We also have documentation for the
> Gallium API and associated bits; if you don't want to build it
> yourself from the Mesa tree, there should be an up-to-date copy at
> http://people.freedesktop.org/~csimpson/gallium-docs/. (If there's a
> problem with the documentation, lemme know!)
>

Thanks for the info.  I'll start taking a look at that.

What is the correct way to install the Gallium driver?  Up until now,
after running make install, I have been symlinking radeong_dri.so
to r300_dri.so.  Is this still the way to do it?

I am currently blocked from using KMS and thus testing the Gallium driver
by this bug: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25662 I think it
is a problem with the kernel, because my entire system locks up and I am
forced to hard reboot.  Debugging this problem is probably a good way for
me to get familiar with the code.  Any tips to help me debug this problem?

-Tom Stellard