Re: Accelerated driver for linux 2.6

[Trent Waddington]

On 1/9/07, Rok Markovic <kernel@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I want to write open source driver. BUT I don't know if i am allowed to
> do this. Our company is small, just a few researchers, and most of software
> written is published under GPL licence (not all, but that is firmware for uC),
> all of the communication protocols are public and API is well documented,
> because we all agreed that we are selling hardware not software.
>
> Our lawyer will review the licence, and then I can tell you more.

Ok, sounds good.  Pop over to http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/ and
look at what they are doing.  For the linux kernel, you are interested
in the DRM component.  You should read this link:

   http://people.freedesktop.org/~ajax/dri-explanation.txt

which explains what each component in the linux graphics pipeline does.

Also have a look at this link:

   http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/MesaDriver

Hope that helps you.

Trent
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