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From: Michel Dänzer <daenzerm@student.ethz.ch>
To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <bh40@calva.net>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: 3D accel on PPC
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 11:00:10 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <394DE11A.6196C0BC@student.ethz.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 19040101091231.12085@mailhost.mipsys.com


Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
>
> On Mon, Jun 19, 2000, Michel Dänzer <daenzerm@student.ethz.ch> wrote:
>
> >
> >XF 4.0.1 will include DRI support for Rage128. However, it needs agpgart to
> >work, so no luck on PPC yet :(
>
> Their implementation is not able to work at all without an AGP GART ?
> That's brain-dead !

Hmm... looking at recent changes in the DRI ati-4-0-1 branch, I spotted the
following:

- Added minimal PCI support (PIO only with no VBs)
  - Autodetect PCI cards -- selets CCE PIO mode and disables VBs
  - Kernel module will now build without AGP support (for PCI cards only)

Is this good news? If yes, let's hope it'll be in 4.0.1 ...


> what about all the 3D PCI cards out there ? And all the machines that simply
> don't have a working AGP ? AGP should be an optimisation, not a requirement!

Of course, but we are living in an x86 centric world *sigh*


> I have all the details (I think) to implement support for the Uni-N GART
> in the new Core99 macs, I'll give this a try one of these days.

Cool! What about the DRM module, any idea if it works?


Michel


--
Pauli's exclusive, Heisenberg's uncertain, and Schroedinger just waves.
______________________________________________________________________________
Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)  \  CS student and free software enthusiast
Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc,i386) user \   member of XFree86, Team *AMIGA*, AUGS

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  reply	other threads:[~2000-06-19  9:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-06-19  0:04 3D accel on PPC Timothy A. Seufert
2000-06-19  8:06 ` Michel Dänzer
2004-01-01  9:12   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2000-06-19  9:00     ` Michel Dänzer [this message]
2000-06-19 20:06 ` Kostas Gewrgiou
2000-06-20 10:36   ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2000-06-20 18:43     ` [linux-fbdev] " Kostas Gewrgiou
2000-06-21  6:19       ` Geert Uytterhoeven

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