[Nouveau] Self introduction Hans de Goede

Hans de Goede hdegoede at redhat.com
Tue May 26 00:43:53 PDT 2015


Hi,

On 26-05-15 09:41, Martin Peres wrote:
> On 26/05/15 10:29, Hans de Goede wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> Since I will be working on nouveau pretty much starting today I thought
>> it would be good to write a quick self introduction.
>>
>> I'm an FOSS enthusiast / developer since 1996. I've written (and still
>> maintain) various hwmon drivers, various USB webcam drivers, libv4l and
>> libgphoto camlibs for photoframes which use a custom usb protocol and
>> usb redirection over the network for qemu.
>>
>> And although not the original author I'm now a days a maintainer of
>> libusb, usb-3 bulk streams support in the xhci driver, the uas driver,
>> and libahci_platform.
>>
>> In my spare time I work on u-boot and Linux support for Allwinner ARM
>> SoCs, I'm a u-boot maintainer for these, and maintain the sata, mmc
>> and usb kernel drivers.
>>
>> About a year ago I joined the Red Hat graphics team, where my first
>> task was to help to get libinput up to a level where it could be
>> used as the input stack for Wayland. The work on this is winding
>> down, so my next project is to help out with nouveau and here I am.
>>
>> My knowledge of GPU-s and basically anything 3d is quite limited
>> atm, so I will likely be asking a lot of questions to get up to
>> speed. I'll also join the #nouveau channel on irc, so I'll see
>> you all there.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Hans
>
> Hey Hans.
>
> That's very good news! Welcome to the project!
>
> Do you know if you are going to help mostly on the kernel or mesa side?

Where-ever help is needed is the best way I can describe the plan
I guess. Step 1 is getting up to speed, I'll likely focus on Mesa
first for that.

Regards,

Hans


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