[Mesa-dev] Guidance in dwelling in the world of GPU driver development.

[Ian Romanick]

On 03/31/2014 08:17 AM, Leander Bessa Beernaert wrote:
> Hey,
> 
> I'm interested in dwelling deeper in the world of GPU driver development
>  in my spare time. Since I'm a fan of OpenSource, Mesa3D sounded like a
> good place to start :).
> 
> I have some experience using OpenGL from a programmers perspective, but
> would like to know more about the gritty details hiding behind an
> implementation. 
> 
> I was wondering if anyone could give me some guidance as to where to
> start (aside from the content posted on the main page)? 
> 
> I am currently using a Macbook Pro (nvidia 9400m and nvidia 9600m GT)
> with Ubuntu 13.10 alongside OS X. Is this machine enough to start poking
> around any of the current projects or should I wait and get a more
> recent OpenGL 4.3 capable machine?

This should be a fine system to do work.  The usual way to get started
is to find some small project that interests you, and dig in.  I posted
a page of newbie projects
(http://wiki.freedesktop.org/dri/NewbieProjects/), but I think that page
is a bit out of date.

> Thanks,
> 
> Leander
> 
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