On 5/11/20 10:05 PM, Alex Deucher wrote: >>> For Nouveau I'm not 100% sure, but from the code it of hand looks like we can do it similar to Radeon. >>> >>> Please comment what you think about this. >> >> I would be against such a move as AGP graphics is still used by people running the powerpc >> and ppc64 Debian ports on their vintage hardware [1]. >> >> I have also CC'ed the debian-powerpc mailing list so that other users can voice their >> opinion. > > Note there is no loss of functionality here, at least on radeon > hardware. It just comes down to which MMU gets used for access to > system memory, the AGP MMU on the chipset or the MMU built into the > GPU. On powerpc hardware, AGP has been particularly unstable, and > IIRC, AGP has been disabled by default on radeon on powerpc for a > while. Do you have a code reference at hand for this bit of information (AGP being disabled on Macs)? Thanks, Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaubitz@xxxxxxxxxx `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaubitz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913 _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel
