Originally posted by Ex-Cyber
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The Fallacy Behind Open-Source GPU Drivers, Documentation
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Originally posted by bridgman View PostI never discussed remote access to the tools and we have no intention of providing that. Alex and Richard are AMD employees working on the open source drivers.
Originally posted by bridgman View PostI think we are saying the same thing, you just don't like the way I'm saying it
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Originally posted by ssam View Postso what is the perfect dev setup?
I only switch machines when I need to test a GPU which is not in my laptop (or when I want a machine that compiles code faster than my laptop).
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Originally posted by marek View PostGet a machine you are comfortable with. Your main machine is okay. There may be important data, don't worry, hardware hard lockups and failures won't damage them. Set up your development environment, so that you can write some driver code, compile it, and test it with a 3D app at any time (no matter whether you are on a plane or a train or at school... you can make drivers anywhere).
I only switch machines when I need to test a GPU which is not in my laptop (or when I want a machine that compiles code faster than my laptop).
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Originally posted by marek View PostGet a machine you are comfortable with. Your main machine is okay. There may be important data, don't worry, hardware hard lockups and failures won't damage them. Set up your development environment, so that you can write some driver code, compile it, and test it with a 3D app at any time (no matter whether you are on a plane or a train or at school... you can make drivers anywhere).
I only switch machines when I need to test a GPU which is not in my laptop (or when I want a machine that compiles code faster than my laptop).
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Originally posted by marek View Postkirillkh and others> The basic inescapable fact is you won't be able to achieve anything useful in the 3D driver development world without deep knowledge of either OpenGL or Direct3D. As a driver developer, you fully implement the OpenGL API, so you should know it more or less fully!
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