Re: [PATCH 3/3] drm/radeon/kms: Add range pinning to crtc/cursor bo

[Jerome Glisse <glisse@freedesktop.org>]

On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 11:47:22AM -0500, Alex Deucher wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 8:29 AM, Jerome Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com> wrote:
> > We force the crtc & cursor bo to be in the first 64M, this
> > will help on legacy modesetting hw where the offset of
> > scanout buffer and cursor are relative to a base address.
> 
> This limitation only applies to pre-avivo (r1xx-r4xx) chips, there's
> no need on newer hardware.  Also the cursor and crtc have to be within
> 128 MB of each other, so you could bump the limits to 128 MB.  Another
> thing to consider down the road might be to treat memory over 128 MB
> as "invisible" on these pre-avivo chips (once we support that in
> general) then we no longer need this limit.
> 
> Alex
> 

I choosed 64M in hope to disminish VRAM fragmentation a little,
this is also why i did not bother to make this conditional for
legacy modesetting hw. For supporting non visible vram see my
other ttm thread. I am working on adding this knowledge to ttm.

Cheers,
Jerome