[Nouveau] Giving a hand to Nouveau

[Ilia Mirkin]

On Sun, Jun 17, 2018 at 8:50 PM, Yoann LE BARS <yoann at le-bars.net> wrote:
>
> Hello everybody out there!
>
>         Well, I just subscribed to this mailing list, so I guess I should
> introduce myself, at least giving relevant information about me
> concerning the development of Nouveau.
>
>         You can call me a scientist, and I am doing simulation code. Therefore,
> my experience in coding is about high performance computing and
> scientific visualisation–and also about teaching. I have some ideas
> concerning material architectures, but I am not into system programming.
> Still, concerning system programming, I do know C and I have programmed
> in assembly, though these are not the languages I use the most in a
> daily basis.
>
>         Well, my main computer has an NVidia GeForce 750 GPU, and I need video
> decoding as well as computing functionality. It turns out that for my
> particular GPU, Nouveau is not that good in these areas.

Video decoding is not supported for Maxwell+. Not sure what you mean
by "computing" functionality, but e.g. OpenGL's compute shaders should
be reasonably well-supported on that GPU.

>
>         So, I guess I should give a hand to Nouveau developers. Therefore, here
> is my questions: what is the help I can provide, knowing I am using
> Debian stable (Debian 9 Stretch at the time) with backports? As it is a
> production machine, I need it to stays usable and there are some other
> projects I should give some times.

You should join us at #nouveau on irc.freenode.net to discuss further
what some suitable projects might be. I've found that people fixing
their own issues first is the best way to start in a project, since
you end up with very concrete goals.

  -ilia