--- Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sul, 2004-01-18 at 01:56, Alex Deucher wrote: > > I'm not sure if this is a leak per se... the problem is the 2D and > 3D > > driver aren't too good at managing memory. the 3D driver may snag > a > > big chunk for a full screen 3D app and then "keep" it. It's then > no > > longer available for the 2D driver resulting in a bad alloc error. > I > > think Alan H. was working on a new memory management system for > > radeon/r200 for post 4.4. > > The linear offscreen manager code is in 4.3.99CVS on the 2D side. The > VIA driver tackles this problem by using the DRI layer to manage the > memory and having the X server also allocate from the same DRI pool >
I think that might have been what Alan had planned for radeons. Alex __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Hotjobs: Enter the "Signing Bonus" Sweepstakes http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/signingbonus ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn -- _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
