On Friday, October 26, 2007 1:02 am Michel Dänzer wrote: > 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.
Yeah I keep meaning to fix that but haven't yet... > > 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... I guess I was hoping for full featured ports, but I think you're right. I may as well just do the simple port first so we can get it merged. Then if anyone has interest, they can switch to a better scheme. Thanks, Jesse ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
