Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: AGP Chipset Support (Graphics + AGP/GART device) | Date | Sun, 18 Jul 1999 12:06:29 +0100 (BST) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> We are prepared to support later kernel versions (for our EV2+ 3D X server) > with some simple binary modules sent along with the server... but would much > prefer that the AGP/GART be supported in a standard kernel.
The Matrox Gx00 3D team have direct DMA stuff working and also some of the GART stuff brewing as simple GPL code. The biggest problem is that a lot of GART handling on intel boards has to be reverse engineered because unlike VIA they dont provide useful info
> Is it that this doesn't present new problems, that aren't already dealt with > elsewhere on NT? (i.e. failing processes botch the graphics engine or mess > up the card or main X server)
Yes. Very much. This is the work Precision Insight are doing, an stuff SGI were doing years ago
Alan
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