From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Martin Peres Subject: Re: Selecting supported chipsets in the driver? Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2013 15:13:46 +0100 Message-ID: <5298A11A.4090608@free.fr> References: <51F83EA7.8050704@gmail.com> <51F922E7.1050100@free.fr> <51F9306B.1020602@free.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: In-Reply-To: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: nouveau-bounces-PD4FTy7X32lNgt0PjOBp9y5qC8QIuHrW@public.gmane.org Errors-To: nouveau-bounces-PD4FTy7X32lNgt0PjOBp9y5qC8QIuHrW@public.gmane.org To: nouveau-PD4FTy7X32lNgt0PjOBp9y5qC8QIuHrW@public.gmane.org List-Id: nouveau.vger.kernel.org Le 29/11/2013 14:17, Christ-Jan Wijtmans a =E9crit : > so uhm, as far as i know in ATI drivers this is possible, why no nouveau? Well, because we share a lot of code between chipsets and it would be a = pain not to compile everything. FYI, on Archlinux: -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 379K 26 nov. 11:18 = /lib/modules/3.12.1-3-ARCH/kernel/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau.ko.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 mupuf mupuf 1,5M 29 nov. 15:06 nouveau.ko -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 180K 16 nov. 16:00 = /usr/lib/xorg/modules/dri/nouveau_vieux_dri.so -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 6,5M 16 nov. 16:00 = /usr/lib/xorg/modules/dri/nouveau_dri.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 583K 26 nov. 11:18 = /lib/modules/3.12.1-3-ARCH/kernel/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon.ko.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 mupuf mupuf 2,2M 29 nov. 15:07 radeon.ko -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 337K 26 nov. 11:18 = /lib/modules/3.12.1-3-ARCH/kernel/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915.ko.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 mupuf mupuf 1,2M 29 nov. 15:08 i915.ko So, the whole of nouveau weights a little more than 7MB. Even by floppy = standards, it isn't huge! And I'm not talking about nvidia's driver that = is WAY bigger. So, If you manage to make a good patch a prove you can save a = substential amount of space and that isn't a pain to maintain, then = maybe we'll consider this. Cheers, Martin