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NVIDIA to provide documentation for Nouveau

NVIDIA to provide documentation for Nouveau

Posted Sep 24, 2013 22:16 UTC (Tue) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523)
In reply to: NVIDIA to provide documentation for Nouveau by SEJeff
Parent article: NVIDIA to provide documentation for Nouveau

Nope.

GEM is the kernel-level interface. And in fact, other drivers _also_ use it. Except Intel implements GEM directly and other drivers use TTM (Translation Tables Mapping) instead.

There's a similar story with Mesa - there's a 'classic mesa' (drivers directly implement OpenGL spec) and Gallium3D (common infrastructure is used for OpenGL and drivers simply translate the resulting TGSI stream). And Intel is the only major remaining 'classic' Mesa user.


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