Information resources

[Jerome Glisse]

On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 2:50 PM, Phillip Susi <psusi at cfl.rr.com> wrote:
> I'm looking for resources I can read to learn more.  I mostly have some
> basic questions that are probably in a FAQ or something, so if someone
> could point me the right way I'd appreciate it.
>

dri.freedesktop.org has most informations we have (which is not a lot)
There is doc in kernel also about drm, high level.

> Specifically some of the things I have been wondering are:
>
> 1)  It looks like the firmware is in the kernel tree in HEX file form.
> Where can I find the source code?

We don't have source of firmware, only nouveau is reverse engineering
the nvidia one.

> 2)  What is a "fence"?

It's what it means, it tell the cpu when the gpu reached some point in
command stream or resource usage so we know we can free or move memory
that was previously in use. Or simply to know when gpu is done doing
somethings.

Cheers,
Jerome Glisse