On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 8:17 AM, Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > These small changes should allow GEM to be used with non shmem objects as > well as shmem objects. In the GMA500 case it allows the base framebuffer to > appear as a GEM object and thus acquire a handle and work with KMS. > > For i915 it ought to be trivial to get back the wasted memory but putting the > system fb back into stolen RAM and in general I can imagine it allowing the > use of GEM and thus KMS with all the older cards that have their framebuffer > firmly placed in video RAM. > > Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Tested-by: Rob Clark <rob@xxxxxx> _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel
