[PATCH] exa: add low VRAM option.

Michel Dänzer michel at daenzer.net
Mon Sep 28 01:13:57 PDT 2009


On Mon, 2009-09-28 at 14:57 +1000, Dave Airlie wrote: 
> From: Dave Airlie <airlied at linux.ie>
> 
> This basically stops any accel to non screen pixmap and non
> window pixmaps when this option is enabled. It makes my
> RN50 at least useable again under KMS.
> 
> I'm mainly producing this to open discussions on whether
> there is a better way. I'm defining low VRAM as < 32MB.

There has to be a better way in the long run, but in the meantime this
could be handled in the driver PixmapIsOffscreen hook?


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