On Mon, 2008-11-10 at 13:37 -0500, Alex Villacís Lasso wrote: > > The question is: is there any xserver support that might enable a driver > to get pixmap data into either kind of situation? Either get the pixmap > into physically contiguous pages and obtain the physical address of the > start of data, or pre-copy the pixmap data into AGP memory (allocated by > the driver on startup, if necessary)
There isn't any such support in the X server; it would be mostly a kernel level thing anyway. > so that the driver does not need to copy it into AGP memory every > single time. FWIW, that's what the radeon driver does currently. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer | http://tungstengraphics.com Libre software enthusiast | Debian, X and DRI developer _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
