A Book On Linux Graphics Driver Development

[entropy]

Any chance we can get our hands on the book/repo soon?
IMHO it doesn't have to be complete or polished before it gets out in the wild.

[entropy]

What update should we make to the wiki page? "All done now. Go home." ?

Well...

The commits were made to a separate git repo which hasn't been published yet.

That's really great to hear.

[alanc]

Has this event actually taken place?

Yes.

There is neither a change to the wiki page nor a single commit to the git repository. :/

What update should we make to the wiki page? "All done now. Go home." ?

The commits were made to a separate git repo which hasn't been published yet.

[entropy]

Has this event actually taken place?

There is neither a change to the wiki page nor a single commit to the git repository. :/

IMHO this book is something needed to lower the threshold for new developers.
What I read so far is excellent.
It would really be a pity if this project dies...

[droste]

*Subscribing to the thread*

[vertexSymphony]

*Subscribing to the thread*

[przemoli]

Why should we wait?

Cant this book be pushed onto google docs, with right to edit for everyone? Or better yet, wiki books?

[DeepDayze]

Maybe I got you wrong but there are quite a few books on general Linux device drivers.

"Linux Device Drivers 3rd Ed." (by Jonathan Corbet, Alessandro Rubini, and Greg Kroah-Hartman, 2005)
is a very popular one and you can even get the ebook for free:

http://lwn.net/Kernel/LDD3/

Nice ebook, despite being a bit old it still has a lot of useful info. Maybe a later version should cover KMS and updated kernel driver interface API's and such, including info for 3.0 kernel series

[vertexSymphony]

AWESOME, a lot of programmers are interested in graphic drivers development (scratch your own itch? hell yeah !), but don't have a place with all the introductory information well explained and such.

[entropy]

I've skimmed through the pdf yesterday. Interesting stuff even for non driver devs. Too bad the (for me) interesting bits like OpenGL/Mesa, Gallium3D are not there yet. Can't wait till it is finished.

This. And I hope they can keep up the quality.
IMHO it's _very_ well written.