Re: 3D accel on PPC

On Mon, 19 Jun 2000, Kostas Gewrgiou wrote:

What is holding back ppc voodoo3 in xfree right now
is PIO support, i tried to use tdfxfb to get away from
this but there a problems there as well (the xserver
needs a 2*vramsize mapping in the framebuffer but fbdev
can't do this unless i patch tdfxfb to think that its
vram is 2*realsize, Geert any ideas how we can get away
from this ?)

Why do they want 2*vramsize? Is the extra space where no RAM is used for
something different? Can they map something there?

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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