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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