On Tue, 2010-12-07 at 11:47 -0500, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote: > On Tue, Dec 07, 2010 at 11:49:14AM +0000, Ian Campbell wrote: > > On Mon, 2010-12-06 at 19:27 -0500, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote: > > > > a) Fix the GART/AGP backend (so drivers/char/agp/*.c) so they use the > > > > PCI API. > > > > Only the i915 and higher are using the PCI API and I've some of the > > > > older > > > > boxes with i860 so can actually test it. > > > > > > I've posted patches to address this (https://lkml.org/lkml/2010/12/6/480) > > > and Dave question is "why anyone cares about AGP in 2010." > > > > > > I was wondering if any folks could comment? > > > > His general principle of fixing the modern stuff first and then working > > backwards until nobody is complaining any more seems pretty sane to me. > > <nods> > > > > Is the series at https://lkml.org/lkml/2010/12/6/516 sufficient in its > > own right to make Nouveau and ATI work or is more needed? What about NV? > > Both Nouveau and ATI (PCIe) look to work. I did light testing (ATI ES1000, > Radeon 3450, Nvidia 65.. something) and will need to do some more > aggressive ones. Oh, and Intel GTT seems to work without any of these > patches - but I've only tested it on a machine with 4GB so I need to add > more memory to make sure.
FWIW Bastian reported (either in one of these bug reports or on the mailing list) that Intel worked for him too. > > More generally if we were to take the series from > > https://lkml.org/lkml/2010/12/6/516 but not the series from > > https://lkml.org/lkml/2010/12/6/480 which sets of cards would we be > > including/excluding support for? > > PCIe = supported > PCI = not supported > AGP = not supported. Thanks. Having PCIe support would be a pretty good start IMHO. Dave's concerns seemed mainly to be about AGP bits rather than PCI, are they independent(-ish)? e.g. is only a subset of the .../480 series is needed to enable PCI support? Ian. -- Ian Campbell Current Noise: Firebird - Raise A Smile FORTUNE PROVIDES QUESTIONS FOR THE GREAT ANSWERS: #4 A: Go west, young man, go west! Q: What do wabbits do when they get tiwed of wunning awound? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1291741722.13966.3392.ca...@zakaz.uk.xensource.com
