A Book On Linux Graphics Driver Development

[phoronix]

Phoronix: A Book On Linux Graphics Driver Development

Next month in N?rnberg prior to the start of XDC2012, X.Org developers hope to get together and write a book about graphics driver development...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTE2MzE

[entropy]

THIS.IS.AMAZING.

Really, it is.

It's all about lowering the threshold for new contributors.
I'm looking forward to it.

[DeepDayze]

A very good idea this is for Linux enthusiasts to understand the internals of Linux graphics drivers and how to develop new ones. I believe a book on general device driver development would also be a good idea too so that new developers can possibly write drivers for all kinds of devices starting from the device programming specs through debugging/testing using kernel tools to to the final finished driver.

[entropy]

A very good idea this is for Linux enthusiasts to understand the internals of Linux graphics drivers and how to develop new ones. I believe a book on general device driver development would also be a good idea too so that new developers can possibly write drivers for all kinds of devices starting from the device programming specs through debugging/testing using kernel tools to to the final finished driver.

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/

[log0]

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.

[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.

[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.

[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

[przemoli]

Why should we wait?

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

[vertexSymphony]

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