Philip Brown wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 12:05:47PM +0200, Abraham vd Merwe wrote:
> > ...
> > It is not always necessary to memory map the device. For instance with the
> > I810 driver, just plain 2D, there is no need to mmap the device, but the GTT
> > (or GATT if you wish) must be populated because the card has no onboard
> > memory and by default. Since the ALLOCATE ioctl() allocates physical memory
> > and the BIND ioctl() populates the GTT, the process looks like this: ...
> 
> Errr.... wonder how xfree86 works with i810 currently under solaris then,
> since there is currently no AGP driver for solaris.

Is that our problem or solaris' ?   There are ways of kludging around not
having an agp driver, the XFree 3.3 driver included some of them, but they're
ugly and in the end no simpler than just doing agp support properly.

Keith

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