sparse and DRM on non-x86

Keith Whitwell keith at tungstengraphics.com
Fri Oct 1 15:27:08 PDT 2004


Jon Smirl wrote:
> On Fri, 01 Oct 2004 21:11:54 +0100, Keith Whitwell
> <keith at tungstengraphics.com> wrote:
> 
>>Maybe there's a problem with terminology, but when we write to agp memory in
>>the drivers, we are definitely using the GART.
> 
> 
> The GART is remapping your addresses, but it's still a normal system RAM access.
>

Hmm, maybe the i8x0 is unusual.  To access the GART on those systems, when 
internal graphics is active, you have to map an io range of the gart device.

Keith



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