On Thu, 2007-10-25 at 11:18 -0700, Jesse Barnes wrote: > The vblank-rework tree has been sitting around with ported radeon and > i915 drivers for some time now,
... except i915 still doesn't increment the counters at the beginning of the vertical blank period but only at the end of it, which doesn't provide the expected behaviour. > but users aren't seeing the power saving benefits because it hasn't been > merged upstream yet. > > Several drivers still need to be ported, but I don't have the test > hardware: > mach64 (?) > mga > r128 > via > > The porting is straightforward and the wins are immediate in terms of > reduced power consumption (assuming your CPU has a power saving idle > mode of some sort). I think we should just make sure these compile and work as well or badly as they did before and merge it. The waiting time for all of these to actually use the new features is probably an approximation of infinity... Unfortunately, I don't have time to work on this right now. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer | http://tungstengraphics.com Libre software enthusiast | Debian, X and DRI developer ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ -- _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list Dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
