On Fri, Sep 01, 2000 at 02:00:25PM -0600, TimO wrote:
> Daniel Stone wrote:
> > -> Multimedia
> > * Faster multimedia with specially designed video acceleration drivers. In
>combination with the new release of the X Windows System, Linux includes drivers to
>take full advantage of your accelerated video card (nVidia and 3Dfx cards among those
>supported) to get maximum video performance for gaming, graphics, etc.
>
> Actually it seems that hardware acceleration for nVidia cards has
> momentarily
> died with the loss of MAP_NR in page[cache].h. NVidia only claims to
> support 2.2.x kernels. If updated drivers do exist, I would definitely
> love to hear about them.
Works perfectly for me with 2.4.0test7; the patch is fairly simple (as
noted by the fact that I have no clue what the stuff I changed does).
I'll attach it.
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--- NVIDIA_kernel-0.9-4/nv.c Mon Jul 10 18:32:13 2000
+++ NVIDIA_kernel-2.4/nv.c Wed Aug 9 15:22:13 2000
@@ -549,5 +549,5 @@
unsigned long page = get_phys_address( (unsigned long)
(address + (i * PAGE_SIZE)));
- unsigned long map_nr = MAP_NR(__va(page));
+ struct page* map_nr = virt_to_page(__va(page));
if (map_nr)
{
@@ -573,9 +573,9 @@
{
unsigned long page = get_phys_address(address + (i * PAGE_SIZE));
- unsigned long map_nr = MAP_NR(__va(page));
+ struct page* map_nr = virt_to_page(__va(page));
if (map_nr)
{
mem_map_dec_count(map_nr);
- if (atomic_read(&mem_map[map_nr].count) == 1)
+ if (atomic_read(&(map_nr->count)) == 1)
mem_map_unreserve(map_nr);
else
--- NVIDIA_kernel-0.9-4/os-interface.c Mon Jul 10 18:32:13 2000
+++ NVIDIA_kernel-2.4/os-interface.c Wed Aug 9 15:14:05 2000
@@ -1226,5 +1226,5 @@
while (num_pages--)
{
- mem_map_reserve(MAP_NR(tmp_paddr));
+ mem_map_reserve(virt_to_page(tmp_paddr));
tmp_paddr += PAGE_SIZE;
}
@@ -1241,5 +1241,5 @@
while (num_pages--)
{
- mem_map_unreserve(MAP_NR(tmp_paddr));
+ mem_map_unreserve(virt_to_page(tmp_paddr));
tmp_paddr += PAGE_SIZE;
}
