DRM Development Documentation (TTM, GEM, KMS, etc)

[phoronix]

Phoronix: DRM Development Documentation (TTM, GEM, KMS, etc)

One of the common complaints that arise from hopeful X.Org / Mesa developers or those aspiring to contribute to this critical free software area is that there's not enough documentation that is up-to-date and covers the internals of the X Server, Mesa, DDX drivers, etc. Well, for those looking to get into any Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) work, a heap of new documentation is available...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=NzY0NA

[gordboy]

This is very good for the whole process. Hopefully admins and packagers will be able to use the new features in time for the April round of distros.

[Veerappan]

"This is very good for the whole process."

Agreed. I read through all that's up so far, and it's definitely helped my understanding of the driver internals... Enough that I might just start hacking around a bit in my (admittedly limited... silly CPU architectures class...) free time.

[wswartzendruber]

YES!!! This is EXACTLY what I'm looking for.

[Svartalf]

Phoronix: DRM Development Documentation (TTM, GEM, KMS, etc)


http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=NzY0NA

Well, well... About time. Might even get some hackers started much like we had with Utah-GLX back in the day.

[whizse]

Was this never accepted upstream? Why?