On Wed, 2005-02-09 at 02:32 -0500, Vladimir Dergachev wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 8 Feb 2005, Michel [ISO-8859-1] Dnzer wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 2005-02-08 at 14:59 +1100, Ben Skeggs wrote:
> >>
> >> Could someone with knowledge of r200_dri explain how vertex buffer
> >> uploads are put into framebuffer memory on r200?
> >
> > AFAIK they aren't, the only data the radeon and r200 drivers upload to
> > the framebuffer is textures.
> 
> I was mistaken then. So the sizes that Xserver prints during startup is 
> the result of partitioning of AGP memory ? 

Not sure which ones you mean exactly, but the answer is probably yes
anyway. :)

> Is there are a reason why this could not have been allocated dynamically 
> as needed ?

I guess the lack of an appropriate memory manager is a reason...


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