device drm with PCIe?
O. Hartmann
ohartman at mail.uni-mainz.de
Fri Dec 16 10:49:45 PST 2005
Jung-uk Kim schrieb:
> On Thursday 15 December 2005 07:36 am, O. Hartmann wrote:
>
>>Normally 'device drm' is only useable in conjunction with 'device
>>agp'. A lot of amd64 based boxes now use PEG slots for their
>>graphics accelerators. Is it possible to utilize 'drm' with PCIe
>>devices?
>
>
> Yes. It should work, at least in theory. ;-)
>
>
>>Does device agp has any effect on PCIe graphics accelerators?
>
>
> No. You don't need it for PCI-Express controller.
Ok, but without AGP (device agp) in my kernel config file, I get a lot
of errors while linking the kernel of missing agp_xxxxx routines
(FreeBSD 6.0-STABLE/amd64). So, device drm alone seems to be useless
(although in conjunction with device pci).
>
> Jung-uk Kim
>
>
>>Thanks,
>>Oliver
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