The "iGoogle bug"

[Jim Gettys]

I agree we'll want to do the DRM work, but it's not finished yet.  That
is probably X server 1.5 or 1.6 (February or next summer) as far as I
can tell.
                           - Jim


On Wed, 2007-09-19 at 08:14 -0400, Bernardo Innocenti wrote:
> Jordan Crouse wrote:
> 
> >> Is it ok to commit, for now?
> > 
> > For always.  It *is* the permanent fix for the problem.
> 
> I see you've committed it already, and Dan pushed an updated amd driver
> in the latest build.  Thus, closing #3352 as fixed.
> 
> Yesterday I also went to #xorg-devel and asked Keith Packard what they
> deal with VM and accelerated uploads in their driver.
> 
> He explained to me that their UMA architecture also handles a
> Graphics Translation Table (GTT), which works pretty much like
> an MMU.
> 
> Without this hardware feature, Keith thinks we'd be still accelerate
> uploads by allocating bitmaps with the TTM memory manager, which has
> been reviewed recently and should be going into the kernel very soon.
> 
> An interesting project for the near future would be adding DRM support
> to the amd driver.
> 
-- 
Jim Gettys
One Laptop Per Child