I agree we'll want to do the DRM work, but it's not finished yet. That is probably X server 1.5 or 1.6 (February or next summer) as far as I can tell. - Jim
On Wed, 2007-09-19 at 08:14 -0400, Bernardo Innocenti wrote: > Jordan Crouse wrote: > > >> Is it ok to commit, for now? > > > > For always. It *is* the permanent fix for the problem. > > I see you've committed it already, and Dan pushed an updated amd driver > in the latest build. Thus, closing #3352 as fixed. > > Yesterday I also went to #xorg-devel and asked Keith Packard what they > deal with VM and accelerated uploads in their driver. > > He explained to me that their UMA architecture also handles a > Graphics Translation Table (GTT), which works pretty much like > an MMU. > > Without this hardware feature, Keith thinks we'd be still accelerate > uploads by allocating bitmaps with the TTM memory manager, which has > been reviewed recently and should be going into the kernel very soon. > > An interesting project for the near future would be adding DRM support > to the amd driver. > -- Jim Gettys One Laptop Per Child _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel