From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Subject: Re: FB model basic issues (WAS: radeon, apertures & memory mapping) Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 10:28:46 +1100 Message-ID: <1111015726.15510.60.camel@gaston> 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> <1111006826.5533.68.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable In-Reply-To: <1111006826.5533.68.camel@localhost> 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="iso-8859-1" To: Michel =?ISO-8859-1?Q?D=E4nzer?= 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 16:00 -0500, Michel D=E4nzer wrote: > On Wed, 2005-03-16 at 21:51 +0200, Ville Syrj=E4l=E4 wrote: > >=20 > > One thing just popped to my head though. If in the future we are goin= g to=20 > > allow graphics cards to render to system memory, using the swapper wi= ll no=20 > > longer work. I don't see any other solution that having the CPU perfo= rm=20 > > the byte swapping. >=20 > 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 th= e > hardware driver(s) somehow. Of course, and radeonfb is what if not a hardware driver ? Ben.