Comment # 11 on bug 103853 from Martin Peres

(In reply to Kevin Brace from comment #10)
> (In reply to dubrovnikdreamcoder@gmail.com from comment #8)
> > 
> 
> Hi Mario,
> 
> > Understood.
> > 
> > My mission statement and the rest will be clearly written with the first
> > set of patches for my target platforms P4M900 (and AMD RS690, if still
> > necessary) IGP chipsets.
> > 
> > 
> > Best,
> > 
> > 
> 
> You do not really need a mission statement, but you do need to pick an area
> you will like to work on.
> Working on 2D (EXA), 3D (Gallium3D), and video acceleration are the areas I
> have not had the time to devote so far, so it is more available for other
> contributors to explore.
> Of course, all of these assume the use of still in development OpenChrome
> DRM.
> Many Linux distributions have dropped non-KMS (Kernel Mode Setting) DDX from
> their default (automatic) installation when you install the OS (you can
> still install them in many cases, but requires an additional package
> installation), hence, getting OpenChrome DRM mainlined inside Linux kernel
> tree is my No. 1 priority at this point.
> The code to support EXA is in the DDX, but it is currently disabled when
> OpenChrome DRM is in use.
> I will also like to support 3D acceleration someday, and previous developer
> (James Simmons) started very early work on it more than 2 years ago, but he
> abandoned it shortly after.
> 
> https://cgit.freedesktop.org/openchrome/mesa-openchrome/log/
> ?qt=author&q=James+Simmons
> 
> We can take this conversation offline to openchrome-devel mailing list.
> After you post one or two useful patches on the openchrome-devel mailing
> list, I can recommend you to obtain OpenChrome upstream repository commit
> privilege from an x.org administrator.

Please indeed move the discussion to emails, and not to this bug report.

> I was able to get another developer to obtain commit privilege back in 2016,
> so it is possible.
> 
> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=94853

Yes, just come back here whenever Kevin tells you you are ready ;)

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