Adopt a libdrm man page

Jesse Barnes jbarnes at virtuousgeek.org
Mon Sep 17 14:36:20 PDT 2012


On Mon, 17 Sep 2012 23:13:57 +0200
David Herrmann <dh.herrmann at googlemail.com> wrote:

> Hi Jesse
> 
> On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 5:12 PM, Jesse Barnes <jbarnes at virtuousgeek.org> wrote:
> > I just pushed some basic man page stuff to the libdrm repo, but won't
> > have time to do any more pages for the next week or two.
> >
> > But regardless, it would be cool if people could adopt some pages and
> > push them out.  The goal is to document every structure and function in
> > the API header files, xf86drm.h and xf86drmMode.h, along with the
> > chipset specific functions for each chipset under include/libdrm/.
> >
> > I've based the man page template on stuff from X, but it may make sense
> > to create our own man page section or put the functions in a different
> > section, I'm definitely not attached to the current structure.
> 
> I just finished writing a short introduction into libdrm modesetting
> in form of a working example+comments [1] and then started writing a
> libdrm-API reference documentation. However, I think I will convert my
> drafts into man-pages and send them to the list. Thanks for starting
> it.
> 
> Regards
> David
> 
> [1] http://dvdhrm.wordpress.com/2012/09/13/linux-drm-mode-setting-api/

Perfect, I was hoping someone would do an overview page or two for the
man pages.  Maybe a top level 'drm' man page with references to a high
level 'drm kms' page and another for ttm + gem?

Thanks,
-- 
Jesse Barnes, Intel Open Source Technology Center


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