[Mesa-dev] Newbie task to get started

[Jakob Sinclair]

On 2016-04-11 14:07, Marek Olšák wrote:
> Hi Jakob,
> 
> Getting familiar with the code should be the first priority. I suggest
> you start with a simple feature like adding an easy GL or GL ES
> extension into your favourite driver.
> 
> You should also use a test suite for testing driver correctness. The
> main one everybody should use is called "piglit". Some people also use
> dEQP.
> 
> Marek

Thanks for the tips! I have been looking at the 
ARB_shader_image_load_store and ARB_shader_image size extensions for GL 
ES 3.1 and noticed that the radeonsi drivers does not support them even 
though the driver supports the extensions in the core profile. From what 
I can tell all supported functions are already in the driver. What needs 
to be added to the driver to gain support for the extensions in a GL ES 
3.1 context?

> On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 11:54 AM, Jakob Sinclair
> <sinclair.jakob at openmailbox.org> wrote:
>> On 2016-04-11 09:14, Jason Ekstrand wrote:
>>> 
>>> Jakob,
>>> Thanks for your interest and welcome to the mailing list!
>> 
>> 
>> Thanks!
>> 
>>> Yes, the NewbieProjects page, as with much of the mesa documentation, 
>>> is a
>>> bit
>>> dated.  Before I can really tell you where to start, it would be good
>>> to have a bit of background:
>>> 
>>>  1) What graphics hardware do you have access to?  That will 
>>> influence
>>> what you can work on. :-)
>> 
>> 
>> I currently have an R9 280x and is right now running the radeon + 
>> radeonsi
>> driver. I also have an i5-3570K which makes me able to also work on 
>> the
>> Intel driver.
>> 
>>>  2) What kind of graphics experience do you have?  Have you ever
>>> written a program that uses OpenGL?
>> 
>> 
>> I have quite a lot of experience working with OpenGL. I have mostly 
>> used
>> OpenGL for game engines that I have worked on.
>> 
>>>  3) Do you have any compiler experience?  If not, that's ok, but be
>>> warned that you might be getting some. ;-)
>> 
>> 
>> I don't have experience working on any compiler but it would be really
>> interesting to work on a compiler.
>> 
>>>  4) Is there a particular area you like to work on?  If you have
>>> something in particular that might help guide what you do.  If you
>>> don't have any particular area, that's just fine.
>> 
>> 
>> There is no area in particular that I'm more interested in than 
>> others. But
>> normally I really like working on optimizations and making it more
>> efficient. I don't though have a great deal of experience optimizing 
>> code.
>> 
>>> The only real firm requirement to work on mesa is a decent working
>>> knowledge of C.  Beyond that, there are a number of different 
>>> projects
>>> that one could work on that require varying levels of skill and/or
>>> experience.  These include writing tests, adding compiler
>>> optimizations, or even hooking up simple extensions.
>> 
>> 
>> Thanks for the help! Really appreciate it.
>> 
>>> On Sun, Apr 10, 2016 at 12:45 PM, Jakob Sinclair
>>> <sinclair.jakob at openmailbox.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Hi! My name is Jakob Sinclair and I would like to start contributing
>>>> to mesa development. I was wondering if anyone has any easy tasks
>>>> that I as a newbie could start working on. I tried looking at
>>>> https://wiki.freedesktop.org/dri/NewbieProjects/ [1] but it seems
>>>> that page is outdated and most of the tasks over there have already
>>>> been done. Thanks in advance for your help!
>>>> 
>>>> --
>>>> Jakob Sinclair
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>>>> https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/mesa-dev [2]
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Links:
>>> ------
>>> [1] https://wiki.freedesktop.org/dri/NewbieProjects/
>>> [2] https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/mesa-dev
>> 
>> 
>> --
>> Mvh Jakob Sinclair.
>> 
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Jakob Sinclair