On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 8:58 PM, Matt Turner <mattst88@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 11:29 AM, Dushyant Behl > <myselfdushyantbehl@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Ping. >> >> >> On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 2:55 AM, Dushyant Behl >> <myselfdushyantbehl@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> >>> Hi Everyone, >>> >>> I am an Operating system developer and I'm working on a project for >>> which I wanted to understand the working of Intel Graphics Driver. >>> Being somewhat new in this field, Can I ask anyone to point me where >>> should I start digging in the code? I mean where the graphic driver >>> initializes contact with the GPU. >>> >>> I'm extremely sorry if I broke any mailing list etiquette. Please forgive >>> me. >>> >>> Thanks in Advance, >>> Dushyant Behl >> >> >> I would be really thankful if someone can help me. > > All of the code exists in > > drivers/gpu/drm/i915 > > i915_drv.c contains i915_init, which is the first thing that gets > called when the module is loaded. > > From there, there's another 67k lines of code that should keep you busy. :) There's also various blog posts from developers for high-level overview, google should be able to dig most of them up. Or start with mine ;-) http://blog.ffwll.ch/search/label/In-Depth%20Tech We also started to document the code internals a bit in the drm docbook, but that's still very much work in progress and so really spotty: http://people.freedesktop.org/~danvet/drm/ Cheers, Daniel -- Daniel Vetter Software Engineer, Intel Corporation +41 (0) 79 365 57 48 - http://blog.ffwll.ch _______________________________________________ Intel-gfx mailing list Intel-gfx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/intel-gfx
