Bug#604096: Bug#601341: Bug#602418: #601341, #602418 and #604096 seem to be duplicates
On Tue, 2010-12-07 at 11:47 -0500, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 07, 2010 at 11:49:14AM +0000, Ian Campbell wrote:
> > On Mon, 2010-12-06 at 19:27 -0500, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> > > > a) Fix the GART/AGP backend (so drivers/char/agp/*.c) so they use the PCI API.
> > > > Only the i915 and higher are using the PCI API and I've some of the older
> > > > boxes with i860 so can actually test it.
> > >
> > > I've posted patches to address this (https://lkml.org/lkml/2010/12/6/480)
> > > and Dave question is "why anyone cares about AGP in 2010."
> > >
> > > I was wondering if any folks could comment?
> >
> > His general principle of fixing the modern stuff first and then working
> > backwards until nobody is complaining any more seems pretty sane to me.
>
> <nods>
> >
> > Is the series at https://lkml.org/lkml/2010/12/6/516 sufficient in its
> > own right to make Nouveau and ATI work or is more needed? What about NV?
>
> Both Nouveau and ATI (PCIe) look to work. I did light testing (ATI ES1000,
> Radeon 3450, Nvidia 65.. something) and will need to do some more
> aggressive ones. Oh, and Intel GTT seems to work without any of these
> patches - but I've only tested it on a machine with 4GB so I need to add
> more memory to make sure.
FWIW Bastian reported (either in one of these bug reports or on the
mailing list) that Intel worked for him too.
> > More generally if we were to take the series from
> > https://lkml.org/lkml/2010/12/6/516 but not the series from
> > https://lkml.org/lkml/2010/12/6/480 which sets of cards would we be
> > including/excluding support for?
>
> PCIe = supported
> PCI = not supported
> AGP = not supported.
Thanks. Having PCIe support would be a pretty good start IMHO.
Dave's concerns seemed mainly to be about AGP bits rather than PCI, are
they independent(-ish)? e.g. is only a subset of the .../480 series is
needed to enable PCI support?
Ian.
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