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11 <h1>The Mesa 3D Graphics Library</h1>
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Andreas Bollecd5c7c2012-06-12 09:05:03 +0200[diff] [blame]17<h1>Help Wanted / To-Do List</h1>
Brian Paul0b27ace2003-03-08 17:38:57 +0000[diff] [blame]18
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Brian Paulf9010722005-02-10 15:18:26 +0000[diff] [blame]20We can always use more help with the Mesa project.
21Here are some specific ideas and areas where help would be appreciated:
Brian Paul0b27ace2003-03-08 17:38:57 +0000[diff] [blame]22</p>
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Brian Paulf9010722005-02-10 15:18:26 +0000[diff] [blame]24<ol>
Brian7f80dc12007-10-31 09:44:01 -0600[diff] [blame]25<li>
Brian Paulb6c41fd2009-01-22 09:58:52 -0700[diff] [blame]26<b>Driver patching and testing.</b>
Andreas Bolla73c59b2012-09-18 19:31:28 +0200[diff] [blame^]27Patches are often posted to the <a href="http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/mesa-dev">mesa-dev mailing list</a>, but aren't
Brian Paulb6c41fd2009-01-22 09:58:52 -0700[diff] [blame]28immediately checked into git because not enough people are testing them.
29Just applying patches, testing and reporting back is helpful.
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31<b>Driver debugging.</b>
Andreas Bolla73c59b2012-09-18 19:31:28 +0200[diff] [blame^]32There are plenty of open bugs in the <a href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/describecomponents.cgi?product=Mesa">bug database</a>.
Brian Paulb6c41fd2009-01-22 09:58:52 -0700[diff] [blame]33<li>
34<b>Remove aliasing warnings.</b>
35Enable gcc -Wstrict-aliasing=2 -fstrict-aliasing and track down aliasing
Brian7f80dc12007-10-31 09:44:01 -0600[diff] [blame]36issues in the code.
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Brian Paulb6c41fd2009-01-22 09:58:52 -0700[diff] [blame]38<b>Windows driver building, testing and maintenance.</b>
Andreas Boll24eebf42012-06-25 21:54:08 +0200[diff] [blame]39Fixing MSVC builds.
Brian7f80dc12007-10-31 09:44:01 -0600[diff] [blame]40<li>
Brian Paulb6c41fd2009-01-22 09:58:52 -0700[diff] [blame]41<b>Contribute more tests to
Andreas Bolla73c59b2012-09-18 19:31:28 +0200[diff] [blame^]42<a href="http://piglit.freedesktop.org/">Piglit</a>.</b>
Brian Paulb6c41fd2009-01-22 09:58:52 -0700[diff] [blame]43<li>
44<b>Automatic testing.
45</b>
46It would be great if someone would set up an automated system for grabbing
Andreas Boll24eebf42012-06-25 21:54:08 +0200[diff] [blame]47the latest Mesa code and run tests (such as piglit) then report issues to
Brian Paulb6c41fd2009-01-22 09:58:52 -0700[diff] [blame]48the mailing list.
Brian Paulf9010722005-02-10 15:18:26 +0000[diff] [blame]49</ol>
Brian Paul0b27ace2003-03-08 17:38:57 +0000[diff] [blame]50
Andreas Bolld9d84062012-06-26 20:47:05 +0200[diff] [blame]51<p>
52You can find some further To-do lists here:
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54<ul>
55 <li><a href="http://cgit.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/tree/docs/GL3.txt"
Andreas Bolla73c59b2012-09-18 19:31:28 +0200[diff] [blame^]56 ><b>GL3.txt</b></a></li>
Andreas Bolld9d84062012-06-26 20:47:05 +0200[diff] [blame]57 <li><a href="http://cgit.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/tree/src/gallium/docs/llvm-todo.txt"
Andreas Bolla73c59b2012-09-18 19:31:28 +0200[diff] [blame^]58 ><b>LLVMpipe - todo</b></a></li>
Andreas Bolld9d84062012-06-26 20:47:05 +0200[diff] [blame]59 <li><a href="http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/MissingFunctionality"
Andreas Bolla73c59b2012-09-18 19:31:28 +0200[diff] [blame^]60 ><b>MissingFunctionality</b></a></li>
Andreas Boll3e206052012-08-28 17:28:20 +0200[diff] [blame]61 <li><a href="http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/RadeonsiToDo"
Andreas Bolla73c59b2012-09-18 19:31:28 +0200[diff] [blame^]62 ><b>RadeonsiToDo</b></a></li>
Andreas Boll933e13e2012-08-06 21:38:27 +0200[diff] [blame]63 <li><a href="http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/R600ToDo"
Andreas Bolla73c59b2012-09-18 19:31:28 +0200[diff] [blame^]64 ><b>R600ToDo</b></a></li>
Andreas Bolld9d84062012-06-26 20:47:05 +0200[diff] [blame]65 <li><a href="http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/R300ToDo"
Andreas Bolla73c59b2012-09-18 19:31:28 +0200[diff] [blame^]66 ><b>R300ToDo</b></a></li>
Andreas Boll933e13e2012-08-06 21:38:27 +0200[diff] [blame]67 <li><a href="http://cgit.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/tree/src/gallium/drivers/i915/TODO"
Andreas Bolla73c59b2012-09-18 19:31:28 +0200[diff] [blame^]68 ><b>i915g TODO</b></a></li>
Andreas Bolld9d84062012-06-26 20:47:05 +0200[diff] [blame]69</ul>
Brian Paul0b27ace2003-03-08 17:38:57 +0000[diff] [blame]70
71<p>
Brian Paulb6c41fd2009-01-22 09:58:52 -0700[diff] [blame]72If you want to do something new in Mesa, first join the Mesa developer's
Brian Paulf9010722005-02-10 15:18:26 +0000[diff] [blame]73mailing list.
74Then post a message to propose what you want to do, just to make sure
75there's no issues.
Brian Paul0b27ace2003-03-08 17:38:57 +0000[diff] [blame]76</p>
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Andreas Bolldf2be222012-06-12 09:05:22 +0200[diff] [blame]78<p>
Brian Paulf9010722005-02-10 15:18:26 +0000[diff] [blame]79Anyone is welcome to contribute code to the Mesa project.
80By doing so, it's assumed that you agree to the code's licensing terms.
Brian Paul0b27ace2003-03-08 17:38:57 +0000[diff] [blame]81</p>
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Brian Paulf9010722005-02-10 15:18:26 +0000[diff] [blame]84Finally:
Andreas Bolldf2be222012-06-12 09:05:22 +0200[diff] [blame]85</p>
Brian Paul0b27ace2003-03-08 17:38:57 +0000[diff] [blame]86
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Brian Paulf9010722005-02-10 15:18:26 +0000[diff] [blame]88<li>Try to write high-quality code that follows the existing style.
89<li>Use uniform indentation, write comments, use meaningful identifiers, etc.
90<li>Test your code thoroughly. Include test programs if appropriate.
Brian Paul0b27ace2003-03-08 17:38:57 +0000[diff] [blame]91</ol>
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