Jose Fonseca wrote:
>
> On Wed, 2002-04-24 at 14:13, Jens Owen wrote:
> > I believe the r128 driver's PCI support still utilizes GART
> > functionality to allow non-contiguous memory to be utilized. Your
> > driver may be the first to need true PCI support, and *possibly* the
> > last to need it unless other legacy chipsets of the same era are
> > supported.
>
> The gamma driver could use it (but just to have a little more code
> readability). I don't know if MGA has a PCI version but it would
> simplify substantially extending its support in case there is, as there
> would be possible to make a parallelism between the AGP and PCI code. I
> believe that the Savage chips come in PCI versions too, and this might
> be handy again.
Jose,
I recall hearing that having an AGP vs. PCI bus connection is
independent of whether you can use the GART functionality or not.
Something along the lines of it's possible to plug a Rage128 into a PCI
slot and still have the page mapping provided by the GART.
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Jens Owen / \/\ _
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