On Tue, 2003-03-25 at 23:15, Philip Brown wrote:
> There are already AGP (and memory alloc) related calls in the X server
> framework; xf86BindGARTMemory(), xf86EnableAGP(), etc.
> 
> The core X server should not be making calls into extension modules.
> Extension modules should be making calls to xfree-exported functions.
> If there arent sufficient xfree-exported functions, extend or add new ones.

The core doesn't have enough information to do all of this job. Video
memory can be shared with other resources - not just X handled resources
like Xv but DMA space for onchip mpeg2 decoders for example. (or audio
even in one case)



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