Re: r128/radeon drivers

Alex Deucher <agd5f-/[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.freedesktop.xserver
Message-ID <[email protected]>
I agree.  plus it makes less code, and could be marginally faster. 
should be able to do it for Xv as well.

--- Jon Smirl <jonsmirl-/[email protected]> wrote:
> --- 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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