From xfree86-devel  Thu Oct 30 11:06:45 2003
From: Alan Hourihane <alanh () fairlite ! demon ! co ! uk>
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 11:06:45 +0000
To: xfree86-devel
Subject: Re: Linear Allocator (Was Re: Alan H's new linear allocator and Neomagic Xv)
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=xfree86-devel&m=106751224526753

On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 10:07:13AM +0000, Alan Hourihane wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 08:09:05AM +0000, Andrew C Aitchison wrote:
> > On Wed, 29 Oct 2003, Alan Hourihane wrote:
> > 
> > > On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 12:26:45PM -0800, Alex Deucher wrote:
> > > > As I recall we had problems with allocating additional memory for Xv on
> > > > neomagic chips (hence the overly_mem option).  As I recall there was an
> > > > issue with allocating memory beyond the limits of the blitter, similar
> > > > to the problems with Xv on via (bug 525).  Could this issue be resolved
> > > > with Alan H's new linear allocator?
> > > 
> > > >From looking at the driver. Yes it can. But I don't have a neomagic
> > > chipset to test.
> > 
> > I have a chipset, if someone can can give me pointers to what to look at.
> > 
> > I wont be able to look for a week or two, since the hard disk on the 
> > laptop has died, and needs to be replaced.
> 
> Well, if someone else has a chip, or wants to update and test other
> drivers (but be careful with DRI enabled drivers as it needs more work
> in the driver). Here's a patch to the neomagic that should work, and
> could be used as a template for the other drivers.
> 
> That's all. Most Xv (if not all) use linear allocation already and will
> take advantage of it straight away without any furthur modifications.

Actually,

Due to the neomagic driver having different use of NeoFbMapSize, here's
a new followup.

Alan.

Index: neo_driver.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /X11R6/x-cvs/xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/drivers/neomagic/neo_driver.c,v
retrieving revision 1.71
diff -u -r1.71 neo_driver.c
--- neo_driver.c	24 Sep 2003 03:16:55 -0000	1.71
+++ neo_driver.c	30 Oct 2003 11:05:23 -0000
@@ -1685,11 +1685,21 @@
 	    AvailFBArea.y1 = 0;
 	    AvailFBArea.x2 = pScrn->displayWidth;
 	    AvailFBArea.y2 = lines;
-	    xf86InitFBManager(pScreen, &AvailFBArea); 
-	    
-	    xf86DrvMsg(pScrn->scrnIndex, X_INFO, 
-		       "Using %i scanlines of offscreen memory \n",
+	    if (xf86InitFBManager(pScreen, &AvailFBArea)) {
+		int cpp = pScrn->bitsPerPixel / 8;
+		int area = lines * pScrn->displayWidth;
+		int areaoffset = area * cpp;
+		int totalmapsize = (pScrn->videoRam * 1024);
+
+	    	xf86DrvMsg(pScrn->scrnIndex, X_INFO, 
+		       "Using %i scanlines of offscreen memory for area's \n",
 		       lines - pScrn->virtualY);
+
+    		if ( xf86InitFBManagerLinear(pScreen, area, (totalmapsize - area))) {
+			xf86DrvMsg(scrnIndex, X_INFO, 
+				"Using the rest of offscreen memory for linear (offset=0x%x,size=%3.1fMB)\n", areaoffset, (float)(totalmapsize - (areaoffset/(1024*1024))));
+		}
+	    }
 	}
 
 	/* Setup the acceleration primitives */
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