From: Manuel T. <man...@so...> - 2001-09-06 18:39:16
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El Jue 06 Sep 2001 20:18, James Jones escribi=F3: > Frank Earl wrote > > >Gang, if it's okay with you all, I'm for largely suspending worrying = about > >bus-mastering right at the moment and worry about having some sort of > >framework in place that uses the bus-mastering buffers to push the da= ta > >to the engine. We know that the draw engine works correctly from the= DRM > >module- so let's use that to create the illusion of a bus-mastering p= ass > > just like Utah-GLX offers with the "psuedo-DMA" mode. This way we c= an > > get something in CVS that will be properly useful for people for at = least > > some apps while we struggle with getting the last drops of speed out= of > > this chip. > > God knows this sounds good to me. Wonder what kind of speed penalty > this will incur. I think this is the best thing. We NEED a CVS branch for the mach64 ASAP= . My poor patch is getting old very quick. |