On Tuesday 06 June 2006 14:57, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 05, 2006 at 11:11:59PM -0400, Jim Gettys wrote:
> > Not clear how large off screen memory we want to dedicate. I expect we
> > may want to do some tuning here, once we have some experience.
> >
> > The geode graphics can only touch stuff inside the window; but memory to
> > memory copies aren't that expensive, so I'm not convinced that we'll
> > want to dedicate the full 16Mb.
>
> That isn't the problem. That driver just assumes a BIOS setup, BIOS
> firmware, BIOS emulated video PCI port (at least on the stuff here it is
> emulated, there is no real PCI device it is talking to), memory layout, PLL
> setup, video layout etc.
>
> Alan
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And that is our problem, isn't it? This PCI emulation code might be
proprietary.
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