Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 16 Nov 2005 10:25:40 -0800 | From | Mark Knecht <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.15-rc1 - NForce4 PCI-E agpgart support? |
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On 11/16/05, Alistair John Strachan <s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk> wrote: > On Wednesday 16 November 2005 15:09, Mark Knecht wrote: > > On 11/16/05, Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> wrote: > > > On Wed, 2005-11-16 at 06:50 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I downloaded and built 2.6.15-rc1 as a test assuming Ingo will > > > > release -rt support for this one of these days. (No rush Ingo!) It > > > > booted on my AMD64 machine and is running fine AFAICT. > > > > > > > > One thing I was expecting to see was agpgart support for the > > > > NForce4 chipset. Is this something that's coming or am I missing where > > > > the configuration is done? > > > > > > > > I have a PCI-Express based Radeon and would like to get better > > > > performance. I'm presuming that agpgart support is part of that > > > > solution? (As it was on earlier architectures?) > > > > > > I'm pretty sure PCI-Express and AGP are mutually exclusive.... > > > > Ah, of course! My bad... They are different buses and connectors. I > > was really thinking more of the 'gart' part of the agpgart. > > > > Is there any requirement/need/value for something like a PCI-E-gart? > > Or does this relocation requirement go out the window somehow when a > > graphics device moves to PCI-Express? > > Yes, you don't need it with PCIe. > > -- > Cheers, > Alistair.
Thanks Alistair.
So, should I be able to see better grapohics performance on my Radeon PCI-E device with 2.6.15-rc1? Are there setups I should test for you guys? (I'm not a developer.)
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