From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michel =?ISO-8859-1?Q?D=E4nzer?= Subject: Re: FB model basic issues (WAS: radeon, apertures & memory mapping) Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 16:00:26 -0500 Message-ID: <1111006826.5533.68.camel@localhost> References: <1110696189.5787.100.camel@gaston> <20050315133628.GA16051@sci.fi> <200503160737.04850.adaplas@hotpop.com> <1110930652.649.50.camel@gaston> <20050316014714.GA5387@sci.fi> <1110937887.649.101.camel@gaston> <20050316195108.GA6651@sci.fi> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable In-Reply-To: <20050316195108.GA6651@sci.fi> List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xorg-bounces@lists.freedesktop.org Errors-To: xorg-bounces@lists.freedesktop.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" To: Ville =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Syrj=E4l=E4?= Cc: Linux Fbdev development list , Jon Smirl , xorg@lists.freedesktop.org, adaplas@pol.net, dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net On Wed, 2005-03-16 at 21:51 +0200, Ville Syrj=C3=A4l=C3=A4 wrote: >=20 > One thing just popped to my head though. If in the future we are going to= =20 > allow graphics cards to render to system memory, using the swapper will n= o=20 > longer work. I don't see any other solution that having the CPU perform=20 > the byte swapping. Sane hardware should have a way to deal with this as well. Either way, this is hardware specific, so it will probably have to be handled by the hardware driver(s) somehow. --=20 Earthling Michel D=C3=A4nzer | Debian (powerpc), X and DRI develop= er Libre software enthusiast | http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=3Ddaenzer