Re: 2.6.15-mm2

From: Dave Airlie
Date: Thu Jan 12 2006 - 15:37:45 EST


>
> > Another one that advertises no AGP capabilities.
> > In this situation you shouldn't *need* agpgart. If it's PCI[E],
> > radeon will use pcigart.
>
> Problem is that i915 depends on DRM && AGP && AGP_INTEL.
> And at the end of i{810,830,915}_dma.c there is the comment:
> "All Intel graphics chipsets are treated as AGP, even if they are
> really PCI-e."
>

I've cc'ed Alan Hourihane, but from memory the Intel on-board graphics
chips don't advertise the AGP bit on the graphics controllers but work
using AGP...

I've got an PCIE chipset with Radeon on it, and in that case I could get
away without agpgart...

Dave.

--
David Airlie, Software Engineer
http://www.skynet.ie/~airlied / airlied at skynet.ie
Linux kernel - DRI, VAX / pam_smb / ILUG

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