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SubjectRe: 2.6.15-mm2
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On Thu, 2006-01-12 at 20:37 +0000, Dave Airlie wrote:
> >
> > > Another one that advertises no AGP capabilities.
> > > In this situation you shouldn't *need* agpgart. If it's PCI[E],
> > > radeon will use pcigart.
> >
> > Problem is that i915 depends on DRM && AGP && AGP_INTEL.
> > And at the end of i{810,830,915}_dma.c there is the comment:
> > "All Intel graphics chipsets are treated as AGP, even if they are
> > really PCI-e."
> >
>
> I've cc'ed Alan Hourihane, but from memory the Intel on-board graphics
> chips don't advertise the AGP bit on the graphics controllers but work
> using AGP...
>
> I've got an PCIE chipset with Radeon on it, and in that case I could get
> away without agpgart...

Dave,

You're probably reading too much into that last statement.

I've never seen a pure PCI-e chipset from Intel (i.e. the ones without
integrated graphics) so that may not be true, but the ones with
integrated graphics are always treated as AGP based.

Alan.

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