more random updates would be appreciated :)

Awesome to see the kernel mode setting dream becoming a reality.

Not a comment related to the code, but I noticed you linking to the sourceforge archives. There is a non-ass interface on gmane, too:

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.video.dri.devel/32316

Hi Jesse,

It's very interesting to follow your progress, along with Keith P, Eric A, etc... but I'm in the dark a bit about the big picture. I know that in driver development there will always be improvements/changes that have to be made, but do you have a "finish line" in your plan with regard to APIs, memory management, etc? And if so, is your plan public?

I'd like to get my hands dirty with coding for graphics (just a personal itch, I want to play with xvmc etc). After reading the docs at intellinuxgraphics.org, which I decided were a hell of a lot better than ATI's trumpeted doc release, I went and got a G45 board + CPU and now I'm all ready to go!

However, I'm finding that the xf86-video-intel driver and supporting bits in the kernel and mesa are so fluid at the moment that I can't get any traction in doing my own coding. Not a big problem, but it would be good to have some sort of visibility on when these things are intended to be stable enough for others to get involved.

At the moment I'm looking at the intelfb driver, which doesn't support G45 at the moment (unless I'm missing some git repo somewhere...) and that's good for me because it's simpler than xorg and so I'm getting my feet wet slowly :)

Hi Rob, yeah unfortunately things are very fluid at the moment; every piece of the stack is seeing large changes these days (kernel gets KMS and memory management, Mesa is getting Gallium and compiler work, 2D is seeing changes to support better render accel, KMS, etc., libdrm is getting updates). The best way to stay up to date is to keep up on the mailing lists and keep people updated on what you're doing and if you have any questions. That way conflicts can be caught early and any necessary collaboration can start before things get to out of hand...