AGP GART clarifications, please!

2014-06-20 Thread Dave Airlie
On 20 June 2014 18:27, ?meric MASCHINO wrote: > 2014-06-20 2:06 GMT+02:00 Dave Airlie : >> So to run in AGP mode you need a chipset specific driver to manage the >> chipsets AGP GART and other features, that the GPU drivers can talk >> to. > > Do the GPU drivers then talk differently to the graphi

AGP GART clarifications, please!

2014-06-20 Thread Émeric MASCHINO
2014-06-20 2:06 GMT+02:00 Dave Airlie : > So to run in AGP mode you need a chipset specific driver to manage the > chipsets AGP GART and other features, that the GPU drivers can talk > to. Do the GPU drivers then talk differently to the graphics card when there's a GART? I mean, are there differen

AGP GART clarifications, please!

2014-06-20 Thread Dave Airlie
On 20 June 2014 03:17, ?meric MASCHINO wrote: > DRI gurus, > > If I'm not mistaken, the current Linux graphics stack is as follows > (excluding Wayland protocol and LLVM or GLAMOR-based approaches): > > X11/OpenGL app -> libX/Mesa -> DDX driver/Mesa DRI module -> kernel > DRM -> hardware > > What'

AGP GART clarifications, please!

2014-06-19 Thread Émeric MASCHINO
DRI gurus, If I'm not mistaken, the current Linux graphics stack is as follows (excluding Wayland protocol and LLVM or GLAMOR-based approaches): X11/OpenGL app -> libX/Mesa -> DDX driver/Mesa DRI module -> kernel DRM -> hardware What's unclear to me is, in the case of an AGP graphics adapter, wh