I'm putting together a document for Kernel Summit that describes the issues around graphics device drivers. The kernel developers are currently making first pass comments on it. As soon as I fold their comments in I'll post it to fb-dev, dri-dev and wherever else is appropriate for the next round of comments. Nobody is proposing final solutions yet, I'm just trying to collect everyone's opinion.
Memory management of AGP/VRAM space is identified as a problem area but nobody has proposed any solution for it. Any solution needs to take into account FB, DRM, mesa-solo and existing Xfree. There have been a few minor comments both ways for doing it in a driver and a library. --- Alex Deucher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- Jon Smirl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is there a document describing how memory management is handled for > > the overall > > AGP/VRAM space? I've found where texture memory is handled, but who > > is > > allocating space for framebuffers on multi-head cards? > > Right now the framebuffer is managed in the DDX. Alan Hourihane and > Ian Romanick both have done some work on new improved memory managers > for X and the DRI. > > > > > If we were to redo the memory management code to support mesa-solo > > (ie no X > > present) what would need to be changed? Should this code be in the > > driver or > > user space? > > That's a good question. > > Alex > > > > > ===== > > Jon Smirl > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Win a $20,000 Career Makeover at Yahoo! HotJobs > http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/careermakeover ===== Jon Smirl [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Win a $20,000 Career Makeover at Yahoo! HotJobs http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/careermakeover ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by Sleepycat Software Learn developer strategies Cisco, Motorola, Ericsson & Lucent use to deliver higher performing products faster, at low TCO. http://www.sleepycat.com/telcomwpreg.php?From=osdnemail3 -- _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
