Re: [PATCH libdrm 4/4] man: add drm-memory man-page

From: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@googlemail.com>
To: "Michel Dänzer" <michel@daenzer.net>
Cc: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH libdrm 4/4] man: add drm-memory man-page
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2012 18:58:08 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CANq1E4RLHQuMv6e3n2noRe+p5M0+VMxEHcE6MGuVyYjHKq-jHw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1348472732.3647.50.camel@thor.local>

Hi Michel

On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 9:45 AM, Michel Dänzer <michel@daenzer.net> wrote:
> On Son, 2012-09-23 at 16:40 +0200, David Herrmann wrote:
>> +
>> +.SS TTM
>> +.B TTM
>> +stands for
>> +.B Translation Table Manager
>> +and is another generic memory-manager provided by the kernel. Only the radeon
>> +driver uses it. See the radeon manpages for more information on
>> +memory-management with radeon and TTM.
>
> What made you think only radeon uses TTM? nouveau, vmwgfx, ast, cirrus
> and mgag200 also use it. I suspect the emerging openchrome KMS support
> does as well.

Whoops, that was my first conception, but I forgot to fix that.
Anyway, I didn't know of any generic API that I could write about here
either so I think I will leave the "TTM" section pretty short. Or any
ideas what could be included here?

Thanks for reviewing! Will be fixed in the next revision.
David