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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: random <eger@theboonies.us>
Cc: Linux Fbdev development list <linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Radeon 2D Acceleration for 2.6
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 08:40:00 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1074634799.764.27.camel@gaston> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.50L0.0401201543490.1525-200000@rosencrantz.pok.ibm.com>

On Wed, 2004-01-21 at 01:44, random wrote:
> Included are copyarea() and fillrect() for Radeon.  It is based on BenH's
> new driver in drivers/video/aty, and it works on my PowerBook.
> Please test.
> 
> To make this work, I've had to tell radeonfb.c to expect to always run
> accelerated.  It was checking if the FB_ACCELF_TEXT bit was set in the var
> passed in to enable acceleration, and it never was;  consequently, it
> never "ran accelerated" meaning it never called radeon_engine_init() and
> such.
> 
> Also, this is my first experience with BitKeeper, so let me know if I've
> screwed something up there (and anywhere else for that matter).

Excellent ! I planned to work on that after the big merge. I'll
review the patch this week and send it to James myself if it's
ok. Regarding FB_ACCEL_TEST, I suppose it could be the initial
mode set by radeonfb missing it, I'll check what's up, I don't
want to force it from userland requested modes at this point.

Ben.




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  reply	other threads:[~2004-01-20 21:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-01-20 14:44 [PATCH] Radeon 2D Acceleration for 2.6 random
2004-01-20 21:40 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2004-01-20 22:47 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-01-20 23:09   ` random
2004-01-21 11:10     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-01-23  1:22     ` Michel Dänzer
2004-01-23  2:19       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt

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