[Dri-devel] Re: 2 questions about radeon driver

2003-08-19 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Tue, 2003-08-19 at 21:49, Alex Deucher wrote: I'm attempting to convert the Xv code to use the CP. how do you check to find out if the driver is using CP or MMIO accel? I considered using info-directRenderingEnabled, but as far as I can see the radeon can use the CP for accel even if

[Dri-devel] RE: 2 questions about radeon driver

2003-08-19 Thread Alexander Stohr
CP mode means using an engine on the chip that gets the command data from main memory by itselves, some sort of busmaster DMA stream. MMIO means that the driver does program the chipset directly via its memory mapped registers. DRI means direct rendering and is the most common socket for current