From: Thomas Winischhofer <thomas@winischhofer.net>
To: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net>
Cc: James Simmons <jsimmons@infradead.org>,
Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>,
Linux Fbdev development list
<linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: Some questions
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 00:12:34 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3E6E6D62.7090601@winischhofer.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1047423048.1128.140.camel@localhost.localdomain
Antonino Daplas wrote:
> The accel engine is probably not a problem if it uses mmio. However,
> engines that use command buffers are more susceptible to this if the
> buffers can be dynamically allocated by the process.
OK, ack.
>
> The i810 for instance uses ringbuffers. It has to be dynamically
> allocated via agpgart. Fortunately, the i810 can support 2 ringbuffers,
> so X can use one and fb the other, so there's no conflict.
>
> Then you also have DRI joining in the confusion :-)
Not in my case :) The SiS DRI stuff is made in a way to prevent problems
of this kind. But I ack that it might be on others.
> The best solution, personally, is to have one module controlling chipset
> access -- DRM for 2D and 3D, and fb for video mode switching.
Well. I personally don't want every graphics application to depend on
kernel modules.
Thomas
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-03-11 23:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 93+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-03-05 12:18 Some questions Thomas Winischhofer
2003-03-05 13:26 ` Antonino Daplas
2003-03-05 14:06 ` Thomas Winischhofer
2003-03-05 15:25 ` Antonino Daplas
2003-03-05 15:37 ` Thomas Winischhofer
2003-03-05 15:44 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2003-03-05 15:59 ` Thomas Winischhofer
2003-03-05 16:06 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2003-03-05 16:34 ` Antonino Daplas
2003-03-05 16:06 ` Antonino Daplas
2003-03-05 16:17 ` Thomas Winischhofer
2003-03-05 16:44 ` Antonino Daplas
2003-03-05 17:01 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2003-03-05 19:25 ` James Simmons
2003-03-05 19:27 ` James Simmons
2003-03-05 15:40 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2003-03-05 15:54 ` Antonino Daplas
2003-03-05 19:31 ` James Simmons
2003-03-05 15:48 ` Antonino Daplas
2003-03-05 19:43 ` James Simmons
2003-03-05 22:21 ` Thomas Winischhofer
2003-03-06 0:18 ` James Simmons
2003-03-06 9:03 ` Thomas Winischhofer
2003-03-06 1:18 ` Antonino Daplas
2003-03-06 1:18 ` Antonino Daplas
2003-03-06 8:49 ` Thomas Winischhofer
2003-03-06 9:12 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2003-03-06 9:58 ` Antonino Daplas
2003-03-06 10:14 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2003-03-06 10:30 ` Antonino Daplas
2003-03-06 9:26 ` Antonino Daplas
2003-03-06 9:43 ` Thomas Winischhofer
2003-03-06 10:05 ` Antonino Daplas
2003-03-06 10:31 ` Sven Luther
2003-03-06 10:48 ` Antonino Daplas
2003-03-06 10:51 ` Antonino Daplas
2003-03-06 11:40 ` Sven Luther
2003-03-06 13:25 ` Antonino Daplas
2003-03-06 15:25 ` James Simmons
2003-03-06 15:27 ` James Simmons
2003-03-07 12:08 ` Thomas Winischhofer
2003-03-07 12:21 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2003-03-07 18:19 ` James Simmons
2003-03-07 14:01 ` Antonino Daplas
2003-03-07 15:19 ` Thomas Winischhofer
2003-03-07 16:19 ` Antonino Daplas
2003-03-07 17:00 ` Thomas Winischhofer
2003-03-07 17:42 ` Antonino Daplas
2003-03-07 18:31 ` James Simmons
2003-03-07 17:49 ` Thomas Winischhofer
2003-03-11 16:23 ` James Simmons
2003-03-07 20:12 ` Antonino Daplas
2003-03-07 20:51 ` Thomas Winischhofer
2003-03-08 0:58 ` Antonino Daplas
2003-03-08 5:40 ` Antonino Daplas
2003-03-08 14:11 ` Thomas Winischhofer
2003-03-08 14:20 ` Thomas Winischhofer
2003-03-08 22:03 ` Antonino Daplas
2003-03-09 3:47 ` Thomas Winischhofer
2003-03-09 6:18 ` Antonino Daplas
2003-03-07 18:30 ` James Simmons
2003-03-11 16:07 ` James Simmons
2003-03-11 21:03 ` Thomas Winischhofer
2003-03-05 19:16 ` James Simmons
2003-03-05 19:30 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2003-03-05 19:34 ` James Simmons
2003-03-05 22:13 ` Thomas Winischhofer
2003-03-05 23:53 ` James Simmons
2003-03-06 8:33 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2003-03-06 9:00 ` Sven Luther
2003-03-06 9:03 ` Antonino Daplas
2003-03-11 16:29 ` James Simmons
2003-03-11 20:07 ` Antonino Daplas
2003-03-11 20:56 ` Thomas Winischhofer
2003-03-11 21:45 ` Antonino Daplas
2003-03-11 22:23 ` Thomas Winischhofer
2003-03-11 22:51 ` Antonino Daplas
2003-03-12 0:07 ` Michel Dänzer
2003-03-12 1:02 ` Antonino Daplas
2003-03-12 1:29 ` Michel Dänzer
2003-03-12 8:24 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2003-03-12 15:56 ` Michel Dänzer
2003-03-11 22:27 ` Thomas Winischhofer
2003-03-11 22:51 ` Antonino Daplas
2003-03-11 23:12 ` Thomas Winischhofer [this message]
2003-03-05 14:12 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2003-03-05 14:18 ` Thomas Winischhofer
2003-03-05 14:16 ` Thomas Winischhofer
2003-03-05 15:25 ` Antonino Daplas
2003-03-05 14:22 ` Thomas Winischhofer
2003-03-05 19:02 ` James Simmons
2003-03-06 1:18 ` Antonino Daplas
2003-03-05 18:57 ` James Simmons
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