Submittion day redux

So after last week's deadline extension today became the deadline for the proposal submission. It hasn't really affected me, but it would have been nice to know by now if this project had been accepted by now. Instead the accepted proposals will be announced April 21st.

In the interim I've been looking through the libXvMC and Mesa sources. The source to libXvMC is a little confusing, partly because of the wrapper library that comes with it, but after a little reading, grep-ing, and peeking at the openChrome XvMC driver I think I've got a handle on how things work. As far as I can see, the libXvMC module provides implementations for all the hardware-agnostic XvMC API calls, and leaves the rest to the driver. It also exports some functions that the driver can use to interface with X. The wrapper module, libXvMCW is intended for clients to link against and exports all the XvMC functions the client expects. The wrapper doesn't contain any implementation, but instead attemps to dynamically load the libXvMC module for the hardware-agnostic functions, and a hardware-specific driver (e.g. libXvMCNvidia) for the rest of the functions. The driver is left to implement the surface/block/rendering related functions. So with that I think it's pretty clear which functions I would have to provide in terms of Gallium3D to complete the implementation.

In addition to that I've gotten back into using Matlab for some prototyping. Matlab is a great tool for this sort of thing because it allows you to easily visualize your data, and I've been using it to test some CSC and IDCT routines.