Re: [Dri-devel] Re: Improved DRM support for cant_use_aperture platforms

["Michel Dänzer" <michel@daenzer.net>]

On Mon, 2003-05-12 at 20:53, David Mosberger wrote:
> >>>>> On 11 May 2003 23:55:33 +0200, Michel Dänzer <michel@daenzer.net> said:
> 
>   >> OK, we have a chicken & egg problem then: I could obviously add
>   >> Linux kernel version checks where needed, but to do that, the
>   >> patch first needs to go into the kernel.
> 
>   Michel> Mind elaborating on that? I don't see such a problem as you
>   Michel> don't need version checks for anything the patch itself
>   Michel> adds, only for kernel infrastructure that isn't available in
>   Michel> older kernels (down to 2.4).
> 
> OK, I'm confused then: earlier on, you reported this error:
> 
>   asm/agp.h: No such file or directory
> 
> My patch adds the following to asm-i386/agp.h:
> 
> diff -Nru a/include/asm-i386/agp.h b/include/asm-i386/agp.h
> --- a/include/asm-i386/agp.h	Sat May 10 01:47:42 2003
> +++ b/include/asm-i386/agp.h	Sat May 10 01:47:42 2003
> @@ -20,4 +20,11 @@
>     worth it. Would need a page for it. */
>  #define flush_agp_cache() asm volatile("wbinvd":::"memory")
>  
> +/*
> + * Page-protection value to be used for AGP memory mapped into kernel space.  For
> + * platforms which use coherent AGP DMA, this can be PAGE_KERNEL.  For others, it needs to
> + * be an uncached mapping (such as write-combining).
> + */
> +#define PAGE_AGP			PAGE_KERNEL_NOCACHE
> +
>  #endif
> 
> So, either you're using a platform which I don't know supports AGP, or
> the patch didn't apply cleanly (perhaps because you're using an old
> kernel that doesn't have asm/agp.h yet?).

That's it. So we have to check the version before #including
<asm/agp.h>. Then, we can do something like

#ifndef PAGE_AGP
#define PAGE_AGP PAGE_KERNEL_NOCACHE
#endif

Or am I missing something?


This is the easy part though, you probably know better than I what to do
about the functions you use that aren't available in 2.4 yet. :)


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