implementation errors). Direct hardware (MMIO, BCI) access is no longer
needed in the Mesa driver. Bumped version to 2.0.0. Corresponding
changes to the DDX and Mesa drivers are being committed.
DRM_IOCTL_VIA_DMA_INIT DRM_IOCTL_VIA_CMDBUFFER DRM_IOCTL_VIA_FLUSH
The first ioctl sets up an area in AGP memory that will be used as the ring
buffer. The second ioctl copies a command buffer from user space memory
to the ring buffer. The third ioctl waits for engine idle until it
returns.
The motivation for this patch is to avoid the wait for engine idle call
before each buffer flush in the current DRI driver. With this patch,
the DRI driver can continue to flush its buffer as long as there is
free space in the ring buffer.
This patch adds an additional copy operation on the command buffer. This
buffer copying is necessary to support multiple DRI clients rendering
simultaneously. Otherwise, more CPU time will be spent in the busy loop
waiting for engine idle between DRI context switch. Even in the single
client case, the tradeoff is reasonable in comparision to the kernel
call to check for free buffer space for the client to render directly
to the ring buffer.
kernel build system. This is based on suggestions and examples from
David Woodhouse. This approach has the advantage that the build
requirements of a wider range of standard kernels are now supported
transparently, but the disadvantage of some extra complexity to handle
building against clean vendor-distributed kernel source trees. This has
been tested with some recent Red Hat and SuSE distributions.
be ported, rolled back r128 and i810 version bumps so 4.1.0 works with
cvs kernel modules, added Config.in and updated Makefile.kernel,
incorporated lots of drm fixes inspired by patches sent by Redhat, made
DRM(realloc) usage check for NULL allocations, restructure driver init
routines to export dev_priv only when initialized and to check for all
error conditions.
Felix Kuehling
Thomas Hellstrom
Jon Smirl
Dave Airlie
Erdi Chen
Keith Whitwell
Alan Hourihane
Michel Daenzer
David Dawes
Leif Delgass
Jeff Hartmann
Gareth Hughes
Kevin E Martin
Rik Faith
Daryll Strauss