On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 11:28:59PM -0500, Daniel Phillips wrote: > Hmm, and force the command ringbuffer to be physically contiguous? In > that case, I'd say don't bother with the 8 entry lists, just let the > ringbuffer be a huge thing that can only initialize at boot. Because > after a Linux kernel has been running for a while, you can't be sure of > successfully getting even 2 physically contiguous pages, let alone a > whole bunch.
Would this prohibit compiling the ogl DRM as a Linux kernel module? Modules aren't necessarily loaded at boot (and, technically, if they are, they are loaded after userspace activity, so memory may be fragmented already). Marcel Moreaux _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
