Re: RivaFB and GeForce FX

From: Lee Revell
Date: Sat Nov 27 2004 - 17:02:58 EST


On Wed, 2004-11-24 at 23:47 +0200, Oded Shimon wrote:
> I'm currently working on getting complete support for Geforce FX for RivaFB.

> The
> only working reference I have for that though is the binary, closed source,
> official Nvidia X module.
>

> I would like some advice
> about what actions I should take next in getting more complete support.

Are you asking "how do I reverse engineer a binary driver"? One method
is to run it under an emulator, and capture the PCI bus traffic. Then
there are tried and true methods like IDA Pro.

Lee


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