Re: r128/radeon drivers

Jon Smirl <jonsmirl-/[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.freedesktop.xserver
Message-ID <[email protected]>
--- Alex Deucher <agd5f-/[email protected]> wrote:
> if we are starting fresh wouldn't it make sense to use the cce/cp for
> everything rather than MMIO?  that would avoid having to wait for idle
> and such when switching between MMIO and CCE.  If we have a kernel
> component, it shouldn't be be an issue to use the CCE.

I think it would make a lot of sense to go CCE only for the main Radeon driver.

R300+ 2D could be handled by a separate MMIO driver.  When specs are available
add the R300 to the main Radeon CCE driver and abanon the MMIO one until the
next chipset arrives.

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Jon Smirl
jonsmirl-/[email protected]

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