From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <394DE11A.6196C0BC@student.ethz.ch> Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 11:00:10 +0200 From: Michel Dänzer MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt CC: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: 3D accel on PPC References: <394DD484.6036B7DA@student.ethz.ch> <19040101091231.12085@mailhost.mipsys.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 19, 2000, Michel Dänzer 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 ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/