Keith Packard wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-05-14 at 10:21 -0700, Keith Whitwell wrote:
>
>   
>> Nobody can force you to take one path or the other, but it's certainly
>> my intention when considering drivers for VRAM hardware to support
>> single-copy-number textures, and for that reason, I'd be unhappy to
>> see a system adopted that prevented that.
>>     
>
> And, GEM on UMA does single-copy texture updates, just as TTM does.
> From an object management perspective, GEM isn't very different from
> TTM, it's just that the current code is written for UMA, and no-one has
> shown code for either of these running on non-UMA hardware.
>   

That's not exactly true.
Stolen memory behaves just like VRAM from a driver writer's perspective.
Implemented as VRAM on i915 modesetting-101 and Psb.

/Thomas





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