Re: [PATCH 01/23] introduce drm_zalloc as a drm_alloc + memset replacement

2007-08-28 Thread Ian Romanick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Instead of adding drm_zalloc, why not just use drm_calloc? At the very least just make drm_zalloc a macro that calls drm_calloc. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux)

Re: [PATCH 01/23] introduce drm_zalloc as a drm_alloc + memset replacement

2007-08-28 Thread Ian Romanick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Instead of adding drm_zalloc, why not just use drm_calloc? At the very least just make drm_zalloc a macro that calls drm_calloc. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux)

Re: Sched - graphic smoothness under load - cfs-v13 sd-0.48

2007-05-23 Thread Ian Romanick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Xavier Bestel wrote: > On Wed, 2007-05-23 at 07:23 +0200, Michael Gerdau wrote: >> For me the huge difference you have for sd to the others increases the >> likelyhood the glxgears benchmark does not measure scheduling of graphic >> but something

Re: Sched - graphic smoothness under load - cfs-v13 sd-0.48

2007-05-23 Thread Ian Romanick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Xavier Bestel wrote: On Wed, 2007-05-23 at 07:23 +0200, Michael Gerdau wrote: For me the huge difference you have for sd to the others increases the likelyhood the glxgears benchmark does not measure scheduling of graphic but something else. I

Re: [PATCH] VIA and SiS AGP chipsets are x86-only

2006-12-06 Thread Ian Romanick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Tue, 2006-12-05 at 20:40 -0700, Matthew Wilcox wrote: >> On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 02:56:41PM -0800, Ian Romanick wrote: >>> I don't know about SiS, but this is certainly *not* true for Via. There &g

Re: [PATCH] VIA and SiS AGP chipsets are x86-only

2006-12-06 Thread Ian Romanick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: On Tue, 2006-12-05 at 20:40 -0700, Matthew Wilcox wrote: On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 02:56:41PM -0800, Ian Romanick wrote: I don't know about SiS, but this is certainly *not* true for Via. There are some PowerPC

Re: [PATCH] VIA and SiS AGP chipsets are x86-only

2006-12-05 Thread Ian Romanick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Matthew Wilcox wrote: > There's no point in troubling the Alpha, IA-64, PowerPC and PARISC > people with SiS and VIA options. Andrew thinks it helps find bugs, > but there's no evidence of that. > > Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: [PATCH] VIA and SiS AGP chipsets are x86-only

2006-12-05 Thread Ian Romanick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Matthew Wilcox wrote: There's no point in troubling the Alpha, IA-64, PowerPC and PARISC people with SiS and VIA options. Andrew thinks it helps find bugs, but there's no evidence of that. Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox [EMAIL PROTECTED] diff

Re: State of Linux graphics

2005-09-01 Thread Ian Romanick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Brian Paul wrote: > It's other (non-orientation) texture state I had in mind: > > - the texel format (OpenGL has over 30 possible texture formats). > - texture size and borders > - the filtering mode (linear, nearest, etc) > - coordinate wrap mode

Re: State of Linux graphics

2005-09-01 Thread Ian Romanick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Brian Paul wrote: It's other (non-orientation) texture state I had in mind: - the texel format (OpenGL has over 30 possible texture formats). - texture size and borders - the filtering mode (linear, nearest, etc) - coordinate wrap mode (clamp,

Re: State of Linux graphics

2005-08-31 Thread Ian Romanick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Allen Akin wrote: > On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 02:06:54PM -0700, Keith Packard wrote: > | > | ...So far, 3D driver work has proceeded almost entirely on the > | newest documented hardware that people could get. Going back and > | spending months

Re: State of Linux graphics

2005-08-31 Thread Ian Romanick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Allen Akin wrote: > I believe we're doing well with layered implementation strategies like > Xgl and Glitz. Where we might do better is in (1) extending OpenGL to > provide missing functionality, rather than creating peer low-level APIs; > (2)

Re: State of Linux graphics

2005-08-31 Thread Ian Romanick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Allen Akin wrote: I believe we're doing well with layered implementation strategies like Xgl and Glitz. Where we might do better is in (1) extending OpenGL to provide missing functionality, rather than creating peer low-level APIs; (2)

Re: State of Linux graphics

2005-08-31 Thread Ian Romanick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Allen Akin wrote: On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 02:06:54PM -0700, Keith Packard wrote: | | ...So far, 3D driver work has proceeded almost entirely on the | newest documented hardware that people could get. Going back and | spending months