Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 08 Feb 2001 11:48:17 -0700 | From | Jeff Hartmann <> | Subject | Re: [OT] Re: 2.4.x, drm, g400 and pci_set_master |
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Alex Deucher wrote:
> There is preliminary support for pcigart in the dri tree. I believe > some people have had some success with it. > > Alex > > Petr Vandrovec wrote: > >> On 8 Feb 01 at 13:14, Alex Deucher wrote: >> >>> Jeff Hartmann wrote: >>> >>>> Petr Vandrovec wrote: >>> >>>> It does not use dynamic DMA mapping, because it doesn't do PCI DMA at >>>> all. It uses AGP DMA. Actually, it shouldn't be too hard to get it to >>>> work on the Alpha (just a few 32/64 bit issues probably.) Someone just >>>> needs to get agpgart working on the Alpha, thats the big step. >>> >>> That shouldn't be too hard since many (all?) AGP alpha boards (UP1000's >>> anyway) are based on the AMD 751 Northbridge? And there is already >>> support for that in the kernel for x86. >> >> My AlphaPC 164LX does not have AGP at all - and I want to get G200/G400 PCI >> working on it with dri, using 21174 features. >> Petr Vandrovec >> vandrove@vc.cvut.cz >> pcigart is only for the r128/radeon (and the radeon support is not done yet.) The has been success using pcigart on the PPC, I would suspect the Alpha will probably be pretty easy to get going.
-Jeff
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