On Fri, 13 Dec 2002, Leif Delgass wrote:

> On Fri, 13 Dec 2002, Ian Romanick wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 05:43:51PM -0500, Leif Delgass wrote:
> > > FYI, I noticed this recent patch from Arjan van de Ven from lkml.  It's
> > > got page flipping and user-defined interrupts for i830 (for 2.4):
> > > 
> > > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=103969295019388&w=2
> > 
> > Good catch.
> > 
> > > Out of curiosity, I just downloaded the i810/i815 specs.  At first glance
> > > I don't see why you couldn't use bit 7 of the interrupt registers on
> > > i810/i815 for VBLANK interrupts, rather than emitting a wait for vblank to
> > > the ring, but maybe I'm missing something.
> > 
> > That was my conclusion as well.  It appears that Arjan's patch does just
> > that for the i830.
> 
> Actually, I think it just has support for user-defined interrupts for DMA
> using bit 2, but it could be extended to include vblank support, I think.  
> The patch includes some updates to the generic vblank template code
> (probably taken from DRI CVS, but I didn't look too closely), but the i830
> stuff seems to still be using the DRIVER_[PRE,POST]_INSTALL macros and
> only enables bit 2 (user-defined interrupt).

Sorry...
s/bit 2/bit 1/

-- 
Leif Delgass 
http://www.retinalburn.net



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