Port Nouveau.

[chronium]

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For the OS to get graphical, we need some sort of a graphics driver. Currently nvidia seems like a nice choice because that's what we have in our systems. So nvidia it is.

But nvidia is closed source. So the closest next thing is the nouveau project. So that's what we do.

Kind of big, but it shall be done with patience.

[bararchy]

@chronium Wouldn't it be easier to port mesa and the Intel driver stack ?

[SplittyDev]

@bararchy that would probably be easier. The main reason for wanting to implement nouveau first is that @chronium and I both own nvidia GPUs, so that way we can test the graphics on real hardware.

[bararchy]

@SplittyDev What ever feels better to you :) I use Nvidia too, so all good from my side ;)

[chronium]

@bararchy The first port will of course be MESA so we get some software rendering to test everything. Afterwards, when it works, we'll port more stuff like Nouveau and such. But first, it's mandatory we start with MESA. To be honest, MESA would be a good starting point to get a compositor up. MESA, SDL or Cairo, and then work with them