Re: Radeon 7200 problems

2004-06-05 Thread Patrick McFarland
On 04-Jun-2004, Mike Mestnik wrote: Right, but thay must not EVER step on each other. From the time one uploades a texture and then later unloads it, that space can't be used. After an unload the memory can be maped back to system use. I think the kernel's memory subsystem should be the

Re: [PATCH] 2.6.7-rc2: fix agpgart

2004-06-05 Thread Dave Airlie
in DRM(agp_acquire) should be removed altogether in a 2.6 kernel because its vmap() takes 4 arguments; however, only the guards seem to have been removed, which causes this function to erroneously fail if the AGP aperture can't be directly accessed by the CPU. Looks like. Removing it

Re: s3tc: Court Overturns Ban on Posting: No Evidence DeCSS Was a Trade Secret.

2004-06-05 Thread Philipp Klaus Krause
Mike Mestnik schrieb: http://www.eff.org/IP/Video/DVDCCA_case/20040227_eff_pr.php I found this article amusing, it showes that the DeCSS DVD decryption computer code is in the public domain and no longer a trade secret. It dose also say that there will be an appeal. I was wondering where we where

Re: s3tc: Court Overturns Ban on Posting: No Evidence DeCSS Was a Trade Secret.

2004-06-05 Thread Ronny V. Vindenes
lr, 05.06.2004 kl. 06.26 skrev Mike Mestnik: http://www.eff.org/IP/Video/DVDCCA_case/20040227_eff_pr.php I found this article amusing, it showes that the DeCSS DVD decryption computer code is in the public domain and no longer a trade secret. It dose also say that there will be an appeal.

Re: Radeon 7200 problems

2004-06-05 Thread Ville Syrjälä
On Sat, Jun 05, 2004 at 03:09:54AM -0400, Patrick McFarland wrote: Which brings me to mention something else: I fully believe that the kernel should be completely managing all aspects of memory and state management of both 2D and 3D hardware. The kernel's portion of DRI should be providing

Re: Radeon 7200 problems

2004-06-05 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Sat, 2004-06-05 at 12:21 +0300, Ville Syrjl wrote: On Sat, Jun 05, 2004 at 03:09:54AM -0400, Patrick McFarland wrote: expose 2D and 3D hardware acceleration functions, allow applications (DirectFB, xservers) to query the available acceleration methods, I disagree. This part of

Re: Radeon 7200 problems

2004-06-05 Thread Ville Syrjälä
On Sat, Jun 05, 2004 at 12:41:33PM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: On Sat, 2004-06-05 at 12:21 +0300, Ville Syrjälä wrote: On Sat, Jun 05, 2004 at 03:09:54AM -0400, Patrick McFarland wrote: expose 2D and 3D hardware acceleration functions, allow applications (DirectFB, xservers) to query

Re: Radeon 7200 problems

2004-06-05 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Sat, 2004-06-05 at 14:09 +0300, Ville Syrjl wrote: On Sat, Jun 05, 2004 at 12:41:33PM +0200, Michel Dnzer wrote: On Sat, 2004-06-05 at 12:21 +0300, Ville Syrjl wrote: On Sat, Jun 05, 2004 at 03:09:54AM -0400, Patrick McFarland wrote: expose 2D and 3D hardware acceleration

Re: Radeon 7200 problems

2004-06-05 Thread Patrick McFarland
On 05-Jun-2004, Michel D?nzer wrote: On Sat, 2004-06-05 at 12:21 +0300, Ville Syrj??l?? wrote: This part of the kernel should be as dumb as possible. I think the best interface would be simply one accepting almost complete DMA buffers. The only thing missing from these buffers would be

Re: Radeon 7200 problems

2004-06-05 Thread Patrick McFarland
On 05-Jun-2004, Ville Syrj?l? wrote: On Sat, Jun 05, 2004 at 12:41:33PM +0200, Michel D?nzer wrote: I'm not sure about that; pseudo-command buffers that the DRM parses and generates the actual DMA buffers from on the fly might be better for security and/or performance reasons. Quite

Re: Radeon 7200 problems

2004-06-05 Thread Mike Mestnik
--- Patrick McFarland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 05-Jun-2004, Michel D?nzer wrote: On Sat, 2004-06-05 at 12:21 +0300, Ville Syrj??l?? wrote: The client should just use a surface id (handed out by the memory allocator) instead of a real address. The kernel would then check if the

Re: Radeon 7200 problems

2004-06-05 Thread Mike Mestnik
--- Patrick McFarland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 05-Jun-2004, Ville Syrj?l? wrote: On Sat, Jun 05, 2004 at 12:41:33PM +0200, Michel D?nzer wrote: I'm not sure about that; pseudo-command buffers that the DRM parses and generates the actual DMA buffers from on the fly might be better for

Re: Radeon 7200 problems

2004-06-05 Thread Ian Romanick
Ville Syrjälä wrote: This part of the kernel should be as dumb as possible. I think the best interface would be simply one accepting almost complete DMA buffers. The only thing missing from these buffers would be real memory addresses. The client should just use a surface id (handed out by the

Re: clgd 5465

2004-06-05 Thread Ian Romanick
Mathieu Lacage wrote: The dri wiki suggests that the documentation for the clgd 5464 chipset is publicly available. However, thoroughful googling did not turn up any pdf file. Maybe it would make sense to update the wiki and remove this statement... Some creative googling revealed that the

Re: clgd 5465

2004-06-05 Thread Alex Deucher
--- Ian Romanick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mathieu Lacage wrote: The dri wiki suggests that the documentation for the clgd 5464 chipset is publicly available. However, thoroughful googling did not turn up any pdf file. Maybe it would make sense to update the wiki and remove this