> > Thats fine as long as you don't want to do acceleration or object > > migration between GTT > > and VRAM type memory. Now I expect when you give out this advice you > > Yes but the VIA doesn't if I recall correctly have any 'VRAM type memory'. > It's all effectively in the GART with the 'stolen' pages preloaded into > the translation tables by the BIOS at vga init time. > > It has fake VRAM type memory but thats really an illusion (although one > the driver seems to like to keep up). The GEM changes do mean you can > plug the existing allocator in the VIA driver into GEM directly. Whether > that would be a good idea or not given the other things you then need to > do I don't know - but it does seem to be me to be a stepping stone in the > right direction that is much easier to make ? That is correct. In fact the via driver detects what type of system ram is used so I can limit what resolutions are supported. Its possible that the memory doesn't have the bandwidth to support a very large resolution on older systems. _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel
