[Members] Looking for a mentor

Kristian Høgsberg krh at bitplanet.net
Tue Mar 25 09:43:40 EDT 2008


On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 4:12 PM, Marc Balmer <marc at msys.ch> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>  who would like to mentor this project?
>
>  Please reply quickly.
>
>  - Marc
>
> I'm interested in doing a project in the DRI realm.
>
>
>       DRI
>
>     * GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap
>           o Update to latest spec
>           o More efficient implementation, ideally texturing directly
>             from offscreen pixmaps
>     * Integrate properly with Composite, in particular, render to
>       redirected windows correctly

These two are more or less done. I'm finishing up a last batch of
patches to add direct rendering support to DRI2, which should bring
that to completion.

>     * Port new memory manager changes to drivers other than i915

The entire intel line of chipsets is covered (not just i915), but
getting the memory manager working for nouveau or radeon is definitely
important.  It's a pretty big task though.

Kristian



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