[Nouveau] Self introduction Hans de Goede

Tobias Klausmann tobias.johannes.klausmann at mni.thm.de
Tue May 26 05:20:06 PDT 2015



On 26.05.2015 09:43, Hans de Goede wrote:
> 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
>

We sure need help! Welcome to the project from my side as well!

Tobias





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