20 Jul
2011
20 Jul
'11
12:31 a.m.
On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 8:17 AM, Alan Cox alan@linux.intel.com wrote:
These small changes should allow GEM to be used with non shmem objects as well as shmem objects. In the GMA500 case it allows the base framebuffer to appear as a GEM object and thus acquire a handle and work with KMS.
For i915 it ought to be trivial to get back the wasted memory but putting the system fb back into stolen RAM and in general I can imagine it allowing the use of GEM and thus KMS with all the older cards that have their framebuffer firmly placed in video RAM.
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox alan@linux.intel.com
Tested-by: Rob Clark rob@ti.com