[HEADS UP] drm merged to -STABLE

[Roland Smith]

On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 11:49:01AM -0500, Robert Noland wrote:
> On Sat, 2009-01-10 at 10:01 -0500, Robert Noland wrote:
> > I just merged drm (Direct Rendering) from HEAD.
> > 
> >         - Support for latest Intel chips
> >         - Support and fixes for many AMD/ATI chips r500 and below
> >         - Support AMD/ATI IGP based chips (rs690/rs485)
> >         - Lots of code cleanups
> >         - Lots of other fixes and changes since the existing drm
> >           is 2+ years old
> >
> > If you are experiencing a "garbled" screen with certain pci/pci-e based
> > radeons, I have another patch in HEAD that isn't included yet.
> 
> I decided to go ahead and fully sync to HEAD, so this should be resolved
> as well.  This added:
> 
>         - Use bus_dma to allocate scatter/gather pages for pci GART.
>           This fixes "garbled" screen issues on pci based radeons.
>         - Prevent drm from attaching to secondary devices even if they
>           have the the same pci id.

Do cards on the PCIE bus still need the agp device? It seems my r535
(radeon X1650Pro) on the PCIE bus can allocate a GART without it. I have
the agp module loaded, but there is no /dev/agpgart device. But if I try
to unload the module, it says 'can't unload file: Device busy'.

Roland
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