Re: [PATCH 1/5]: drm: ati_pcigart: Do not access I/O MEM spaceusing pointer derefs.

From: David Miller
Date: Sat Feb 14 2009 - 04:51:38 EST


From: David Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2009 01:11:45 -0800 (PST)

> From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2009 20:07:54 +1100
>
> > We can do that by registering a surface from the kernel to cover the
> > GART I suppose, and clean things a bit so that when using the DRI, X
> > doesn't touch the surface registers -at all- and leaves it to the
> > kernel.
>
> That actually sounds like a good idea.

Ok I have it working, patch coming right up.
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