Hi Alex!
On 5/11/20 10:46 PM, Alex Deucher wrote:
Note there is no loss of functionality here, at least on radeon hardware. It just comes down to which MMU gets used for access to system memory, the AGP MMU on the chipset or the MMU built into the GPU. On powerpc hardware, AGP has been particularly unstable, and IIRC, AGP has been disabled by default on radeon on powerpc for a while.
Do you have a code reference at hand for this bit of information (AGP being disabled on Macs)?
It was disabled 2 years ago: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?i...
Ok, that makes less dramatic then than I initially thought.
I would still like to collect some voices from the debian-powerpc list though and maybe some comments from other directions.
In any case, I agree with Christian's stance that if the code is supposed to be removed, it should be deprecated first.
Adrian