Learning to write video drivers, resources

Russell Shaw rjshaw at netspace.net.au
Thu Nov 2 16:12:01 PST 2006


Donnie Berkholz wrote:
> Luc Verhaegen wrote:
> 
>>On Thu, Nov 02, 2006 at 04:26:40AM -0800, bloogity bloggity wrote:
>>
>>>but just staring at at a 40,000 lines of C driver and hoping to gain 
>>>an understanding doesn't sound very effective.
>>
>>This pretty much describes the process.
> 
> There is also the DESIGN document for a more general understanding:
> xorg.freedesktop.org/releases/X11R7.0/doc/PDF/DESIGN.pdf

xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/doc/sgml/DESIGN.sgml is 2 years more recent.



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