Re: [Dri-devel] comments for agpgart.h needed

2001-12-12 Thread Philip Brown
On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 09:46:23PM +0100, Alexander Stohr wrote: > [phil brown wrote] > > So allowing signed int for pagecounts, means you can allow -1 > > as a flag for "uninitialized" or something. > > a special value of zero is sufficient here. well, yeah, pagecount=0 is fine for an error fl

RE: [Dri-devel] comments for agpgart.h needed

2001-12-12 Thread Alexander Stohr
> But we're talking page count, not byte count. So signed vs unsigned is > something like having 8 vs 16 TERRABYTES addressable. > Personally, I dont think that should be an issue :-) well estimated. ;-) consider such a coding: size_t size_of_one_member, total_size_in_bytes; int

Re: [Dri-devel] gl extensions on/off

2001-12-12 Thread Gareth Hughes
On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 04:30:56PM +, Sergey V. Udaltsov wrote: > > Why force any application to implement some more or less wide > > set of external shell varibles to query while the same is much > > easier to maintain if its part of a "gatekeeper" library? > Exactly! That's what I meant! Qu

Re: [Dri-devel] comments for agpgart.h needed

2001-12-12 Thread Gareth Hughes
On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 01:36:10PM +0100, Alexander Stohr wrote: > > Suggestion: > typedef unsigned intelcount_t; > or > #define elcount_t unsigned int Ack. Don't do that. -- Gareth ___ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PR

Re: [Dri-devel] comments for agpgart.h needed

2001-12-12 Thread Philip Brown
On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 01:36:10PM +0100, Alexander Stohr wrote: > - the number of pages should never go negative, so why do we need the sign? > - there is no reason why the number of pages should get limited to i.e. > 2 GB instead of 4 GB on 32 bit machines. But we're talking page count, not byt

RE: [Dri-devel] gl extensions on/off

2001-12-12 Thread Sergey V. Udaltsov
> Why force any application to implement some more or less wide > set of external shell varibles to query while the same is much > easier to maintain if its part of a "gatekeeper" library? Exactly! That's what I meant! Sergey ___ Dri-devel mailing list

RE: [Dri-devel] gl extensions on/off

2001-12-12 Thread Alexander Stohr
> > Sure, an app can always elect whether or not it uses > particular extensions. > > Maybe I'm missing your point. > "An app"? Probably. But some particular (very nice, BTW) apps > still very > dumb in terms of configuration so I'd like to have ability to turn > extensions on/off myself, withou

Re: [Dri-devel] gl extensions on/off

2001-12-12 Thread Sergey V. Udaltsov
> Sure, an app can always elect whether or not it uses particular extensions. > Maybe I'm missing your point. "An app"? Probably. But some particular (very nice, BTW) apps still very dumb in terms of configuration so I'd like to have ability to turn extensions on/off myself, without modifying the

Re: [Dri-devel] Mach64 driver

2001-12-12 Thread Sergey V. Udaltsov
> Any info (or references to documents in XFree tree) would be highly > appreciated... Finally, I managed to get and build (and even run) mach64 branch. Thanks to everyone who helped me. Now I use not Jose's binaries but the ones built on my own system. Nothing has changed (what a surprize!:) on

Re: [Dri-devel] gl extensions on/off

2001-12-12 Thread Leif Delgass
On 12 Dec 2001, Sergey V. Udaltsov wrote: > > I think the point is (but I could be wrong) whether this is > > user-configurable without recoding/recompiling anything, and it seems the > > answer is no. > That's bad. Definitely this is not high-priority issue, but it would be > nice to have abili

Re: [Dri-devel] gl extensions on/off

2001-12-12 Thread Brian Paul
Leif Delgass wrote: > > On Tue, 11 Dec 2001, Brian Paul wrote: > > > "Sergey V. Udaltsov" wrote: > > > > > > Hi all > > > > > > Is it possible to turn on/off some particular GL extenstions in Mach64 > > > driver? Is mesa.conf in any help here? I would like to play with > > > texture-related exte

Re: [Dri-devel] comments for agpgart.h needed

2001-12-12 Thread Nicolas Aspert
Alexander Stohr wrote: > > possibly i am thinking a bit more practical: - the number of pages > should never go negative, so why do we need the sign? - there is no > reason why the number of pages should get limited to i.e. 2 GB > instead of 4 GB on 32 bit machines. I think Phil *meant*

RE: [Dri-devel] comments for agpgart.h needed

2001-12-12 Thread Alexander Stohr
> > > typedef struct _agp_allocate { > > > size_t pg_count;/* number of pages */ > > > [Is this really "number of pages", or is it actually > > > "amount of memory"? If really "number of pages", > > > then WHY ISNT IT AN INT?!!] > > >

Re: [Dri-devel] gl extensions on/off

2001-12-12 Thread Sergey V. Udaltsov
> I think the point is (but I could be wrong) whether this is > user-configurable without recoding/recompiling anything, and it seems the > answer is no. That's bad. Definitely this is not high-priority issue, but it would be nice to have ability to enable/disable extensions without recompiling a

Re: [Dri-devel] Re: OB6100 agpgart problem / patch

2001-12-12 Thread Nicolas Aspert
Troy A. Griffitts wrote: > Nicolas, > Hey! Thanks! Where were you last week!? Your patch looks like you > know what you're doing, whereas I just read the developer docs and > hacked until it worked. I was here ;-) but I saw no message containing sthg about i830 posted on dri-devel ..

Re: [Dri-devel] Re: OB6100 agpgart problem / patch

2001-12-12 Thread Troy A. Griffitts
> Get it at http://ltswww.epfl.ch/~aspert/patches/patch-agp_i830mp-2.4.16 Nicolas, Hey! Thanks! Where were you last week!? Your patch looks like you know what you're doing, whereas I just read the developer docs and hacked until it worked. You caught me just before sending to

Re: [Dri-devel] fbdri, what's up ?

2001-12-12 Thread Alan Hourihane
On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 10:13:41AM +0100, stephane conversy wrote: > I wonder what's going on with fbdri (http://fbdri.sf.net). > Is it stuck ? > if so is it because of a lack of interest, a lack of developers, or because > it's too cumbersome to do ? > You'll need to ask over on their lists, th

Re: [Dri-devel] Re: OB6100 agpgart problem / patch

2001-12-12 Thread Nicolas Aspert
Troy A. Griffitts wrote: > ok Bjorn, > I think I got it. Thanks again for the info. > > I went to developer.intel.com and read about the i830 chipset and, like > you said the 830M and 830MG have an integrated graphics chipset, where > the 830MP does not (I have a radeon :) ). > > So...

[Dri-devel] fbdri, what's up ?

2001-12-12 Thread stephane conversy
Hello. I wonder what's going on with fbdri (http://fbdri.sf.net). Is it stuck ? if so is it because of a lack of interest, a lack of developers, or because it's too cumbersome to do ? Best regards, stef ___ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROT

[Dri-devel] Re: OB6100 agpgart problem / patch

2001-12-12 Thread Troy A. Griffitts
ok Bjorn, I think I got it. Thanks again for the info. I went to developer.intel.com and read about the i830 chipset and, like you said the 830M and 830MG have an integrated graphics chipset, where the 830MP does not (I have a radeon :) ). So... In the detection / initialization tables

Re: [Dri-devel] comments for agpgart.h needed

2001-12-12 Thread Philip Brown
On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 08:15:44AM +0100, Nicolas Aspert wrote: > Philip Brown wrote: > > typedef struct _agp_allocate { > > size_t pg_count;/* number of pages */ > > [Is this really "number of pages", or is it actually > > "amount of memory"?