Re: r128/radeon drivers

On Thu, 2003-11-20 at 11:43, Jon Smirl wrote:
> --- Eric Anholt <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I don't see any reason to remove support for MMIO, unless we're going to
> > require some sort of other features provided by the DRM.  Making a
> > single set of accel funcs that supports MMIO and CCE is really easy. 
> > And the accel funcs are small anyway.
> 
> I was thinking of the future with 3D & DRM support. By eliminating MMIO mode now
> we would get rid of the entire issue of transitioning between MMIO and CCE state
> later. 

Well... what we can do is that when a given card support CCE, we only
use that and so never transition. We really need to still support MMIO
anyway, would it be only for helping tracking down bugs/lockups, or
for platforms for which we simply don't (yet) have the kernel support

Ben.