Re: 3D accel on PPC

Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:

On Mon, Jun 19, 2000, Michel Dänzer [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

XF 4.0.1 will include DRI support for Rage128. However, it needs agpgart to
work, so no luck on PPC yet :(

Their implementation is not able to work at all without an AGP GART ?
That's brain-dead !

Hmm... looking at recent changes in the DRI ati-4-0-1 branch, I spotted the
following:

- Added minimal PCI support (PIO only with no VBs)
  - Autodetect PCI cards -- selets CCE PIO mode and disables VBs
  - Kernel module will now build without AGP support (for PCI cards only)

Is this good news? If yes, let's hope it'll be in 4.0.1 ...

what about all the 3D PCI cards out there ? And all the machines that simply
don't have a working AGP ? AGP should be an optimisation, not a requirement!

Of course, but we are living in an x86 centric world *sigh*

I have all the details (I think) to implement support for the Uni-N GART
in the new Core99 macs, I'll give this a try one of these days.

Cool! What about the DRM module, any idea if it works?


Michel


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Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)  \  CS student and free software enthusiast
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