Mailinglist Archive: radeonhd (308 mails)

["Alex Deucher" <alexdeucher@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 12:00 PM, Bridgman, John <John.Bridgman@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> I think someone mentioned that resizing the fb would be a problem for
>  XAA and that we would probably have to abandon XAA to enable this. Do we
>  think this is still the case ?

That is correct, XAA won't be able to deal with that at the moment.
Basically we need ttm support in the drm to do dynamic buffer
allocation.  Once the radeon drm gets ttm support we can make the
appropriate changes to the radeonhd/radeon drivers to properly support
this.

>  That said, EXA on Radeon parts is looking a lot better these days.

Yes.  I'm considering making it the default.

Alex

>  -----Original Message-----
>  From: Adam Williamson [mailto:awilliamson@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
>  Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2008 11:57 AM
>  To: Matthias Hopf
>  Cc: radeonhd@xxxxxxxxxxxx
>  Subject: Re: [radeonhd] 0x94C3:0x1545:0x3210: Radeon HD 2400 Pro (PCIe)
>
>  On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 16:24 +0100, Matthias Hopf wrote:
>
>  > The "Virtual" keyword is commented out. Without having a large virtual
>
>  > assigned on startup time, you cannot put one monitor next to the
>  other.
>
>  Is there a plan for improving this in radeonhd? The intel driver guys
>  plan on allowing the framebuffer allocation to be dynamically (and
>  automatically) resized, sometime later this year.
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