[Mesa-dev] Request for Mentor - XorgEvoc - Piglit for VA-API

[Benson Muite]

Welcome! From the page:

https://www.x.org/wiki/SummerOfCodeIdeas/

Might try and ping Christian König. Do you have an AMD GPU?

Benson

On 09/09/2018 09:41 AM, Naveen Naidu wrote:
> Hello Everyone,
>
> I am Naveen a Junior year computer science undergrad from India. I 
> really apologize for disturbing you all again. But I have been going 
> through the available projects for the XorgEVoC program and the 
> project *Piglit for VA-API *caught my attention. I have mailed last 
> week looking out for mentors for the project, but unfortunately this 
> email did not receive attention due to the busy schedule at Xorg I guess.
>
> I have been working on the project since the last time I mailed asking 
> for directions. As Alex mentioned in his reply, I have read through 
> the piglit documentation and am now sufficiently familiar with piglit.
>
> Things that I have done until now:-
>
>  1. Read through the Piglit documentation (Capable of understanding
>     and writing small tests using piglit)
>  2. Compiled gstreamer, and also set up the gst-uninstalled environment.
>  3. Understood about the architecture of gstreamer.
>  4. Currently reading about VA-API.
>  5. Planning to implement a simple VA-API app to better understand the
>     type of tests I need to write for VA-API
>
>
> I am comfortable with both C and Python and given the skill set I am 
> confident of accomplishing the project. I would thus like to discuss 
> the details and deliverable of the project with my potential mentor 
> and would like to know how I can proceed with the project.
>
> Since no potential mentor was mentioned in the Idea's Page, it would 
> be really kind of someone if they are willing to be a mentor for the 
> project. I can assure you that I will put the best of my efforts and 
> dedication into the project and will see that the project is completed.
>
> Thank you for your valuable time.
>
> Regards,
> Naveen Naidu
> https://github.com/Naveenaidu
>

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