On Mon, 22 Apr 2002, Faruk Grozdanic wrote: > Hello, > > I am trying to port the utah-glx s3savage drivers from xfree86 3.3.x to > 4.2.0 . Old code calls xf86AccelInfoRec.PixmapCacheMemoryStart & > xf86AccelInfoRec.PixmapCacheMemoryEnd to get the memory range to use. > In xf86 4.2.0 these do not exist. My understanding is to use > xf86AllocateOffscreenLinear (from xf86fbman.h) for this task. Can I call > this function directly or should I use FBManagerFuncs structure to do this? > Also, if there is a better way of allocatiing VideoRam please let me know. > Where did you get the Utah-glx drivers? I'd heard about them but thought that they were not available. This is great news that someone is working on it. I would suggest that you should try the Xpert list however, your more likely to get answers to low-level programming questions there. Are you aware of the existence of http://www.probo.com/timr/savage40.html and its associated mailing list? The maintainer T. Roberts may be the most knowledgable person on this topic. -Oisin
