Re: [Dri-devel] Matrox G400/450 PCI support

2002-06-12 Thread Ville Syrjälä
On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 07:37:19PM +0100, José Fonseca wrote: > On 2002.06.10 18:32 Ville Syrjälä wrote: > > Here's my understanding of the situation. Someone more enlightened should > > correct me if I'm wrong. > > > > On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 04:22:11PM +, Gareth Knight wrote: > > > I am int

Re: [Dri-devel] Matrox G400/450 PCI support

2002-06-10 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Mon, 2002-06-10 at 23:03, Gareth Knight wrote: > > Does anyone know how the ATI Rage 128 driver copes ? It would appear it > uses some sort of PCI GART - is this real hardware capability or a clever > wrapper layer ? It's a graphics chip feature. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Deb

Re: [Dri-devel] Matrox G400/450 PCI support

2002-06-10 Thread Gareth Knight
> > 2. To remove the AGP dependencies from the current Matrox driver > > This might be nasty as the card doesn't do scatter-gather DMA. You'd need > a physically contiguous chunk of memory which the Linux kernel can't > guarantee. I'm not sure how much memory the DMA buffers require. Putting > te

Re: [Dri-devel] Matrox G400/450 PCI support

2002-06-10 Thread José Fonseca
On 2002.06.10 18:32 Ville Syrjälä wrote: > Here's my understanding of the situation. Someone more enlightened should > correct me if I'm wrong. > > On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 04:22:11PM +, Gareth Knight wrote: > > I am interested in adding DRI support for an Algorithmics P6064 mips > > developme

Re: [Dri-devel] Matrox G400/450 PCI support

2002-06-10 Thread Ville Syrjälä
Here's my understanding of the situation. Someone more enlightened should correct me if I'm wrong. On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 04:22:11PM +, Gareth Knight wrote: > I am interested in adding DRI support for an Algorithmics P6064 mips > development board. I already have the standard X server work

[Dri-devel] Matrox G400/450 PCI support

2002-06-10 Thread Gareth Knight
I am interested in adding DRI support for an Algorithmics P6064 mips development board. I already have the standard X server working OK I see two possibilities: 1. To write some support for the Hint HB1-SE33 bridge on the Matrox G450 PCI card and make it look like some sort of AGP Gart is pre