[PATCHES] [RFC] Enable MSAA registers for r300-r500 chipsets

[Corbin Simpson]

Version two of these patches. The kernel patchlevel is bumped. DDX now
checks kernel version before writing MSPOS, and I've got some Gallium
code to do the same, not yet pushed.

~ C.

On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 12:47 PM, Jerome Glisse <glisse at freedesktop.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 12:28:20PM -0800, Corbin Simpson wrote:
>> Two patches attached, one for the kernel and one for the DDX.
>>
>> Comments welcome; I have no idea exactly how to handle the case where
>> the DDX is newer than the kernel. Do we need to make a patchlevel
>> version bump and check?
>>
>
> If ddx is newer than the kernel than we should not write the mpos reg.
> I think the issue is more about how mesa knows that ddx is recent
> enought. Mesa driver need to check before enabling those that ddx will
> restore its mspos settings. Others solution is to always restore for the
> ddx the mspos settings (mesa stills need to check for kernel support).
>
> Cheers,
> Jerome
>



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Corbin Simpson
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