Hi Alex! On 5/11/20 10:46 PM, Alex Deucher wrote: >>> 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)? > > It was disabled 2 years ago: > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=037d1a66ae640ca2723f47c0115ffa9e603699b3 Ok, that makes less dramatic then than I initially thought. I would still like to collect some voices from the debian-powerpc list though and maybe some comments from other directions. In any case, I agree with Christian's stance that if the code is supposed to be removed, it should be deprecated first. 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
