[Nouveau] About Using "nVidia Open Source Driver" on MIPS Computer

[Zhiqiang Liu]

Hello, Gurus, recently I got a MIPS computer installed with Linux
OS(Fedora), unfortunately there is no driver for the graphics
card, so it cannot perform 3D acceleration. Since I happen to have a nVidia
graphics card at hand (it is GeForce 9500GT, somewhat old), I want to apply
this card on this computer, so my questions are:

1. Is it possible to make a nVidia graphics driver for this MIPS computer
from current open source driver, i.e, transplant current
X86-based driver to MIPs-based driver?
2. If it is possible to do so, then what and where should I start with? what
parts of the driver I'll have to modify? and are there any
architecture-specific
parts, e.g, parts implemented by X86 assembly language or something else HW
dependent?
3. What skills do you think I must have to do this job? I am skillful at C
programming in Linux, and have much experience on HW designing, should I
grasp OpenGL for this work?
4. To make a workable driver with 3D acceleration, which modules' source codes
should I download? I have downloaded a file named
"xf86-video-nouveau-1.0.10.zip", is it right?

Currently I don't have so much knowledge on Graphics Card and Linux, but I
am interested in this task very much, I will try my best to finish it as
long as there are possibilities to succeed.

Thank your gurus very much!

Best Regards
Gavin
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