From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161493AbWAMIbw (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Jan 2006 03:31:52 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161495AbWAMIbw (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Jan 2006 03:31:52 -0500 Received: from anchor-post-32.mail.demon.net ([194.217.242.90]:26124 "EHLO anchor-post-32.mail.demon.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161493AbWAMIbv (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Jan 2006 03:31:51 -0500 Subject: Re: 2.6.15-mm2 From: Alan Hourihane To: Dave Airlie Cc: Dave Airlie , Ulrich Mueller , Dave Jones , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Brice Goglin , Andrew Morton In-Reply-To: <21d7e9970601121402u2d05a073kc677f94b278181c0@mail.gmail.com> References: <20060107052221.61d0b600.akpm@osdl.org> <20060107210413.GL9402@redhat.com> <43C03214.5080201@ens-lyon.org> <43C55148.4010706@ens-lyon.org> <20060111202957.GA3688@redhat.com> <20060112171137.GA19827@redhat.com> <17350.39878.474574.712791@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> <1137099813.9711.32.camel@jetpack.demon.co.uk> <21d7e9970601121402u2d05a073kc677f94b278181c0@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Tungsten Graphics, Inc. Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 08:32:05 +0000 Message-Id: <1137141125.9634.0.camel@jetpack.demon.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 2006-01-13 at 09:02 +1100, Dave Airlie wrote: > > > > > > I've cc'ed Alan Hourihane, but from memory the Intel on-board graphics > > > chips don't advertise the AGP bit on the graphics controllers but work > > > using AGP... > > > > > > I've got an PCIE chipset with Radeon on it, and in that case I could get > > > away without agpgart... > > > > Dave, > > > > You're probably reading too much into that last statement. > > > > I've never seen a pure PCI-e chipset from Intel (i.e. the ones without > > integrated graphics) so that may not be true, but the ones with > > integrated graphics are always treated as AGP based. > > > > I'll show you one at xdevconf if I can get there, it has just a PCI-E > root bridge no graphics controller, we still init AGP on it but I > don't think there is any need, however for all the integrated > graphics, even if they don't advertise AGP they do use it which is > DaveJ's problem that he was trying not to load AGP if the AGP was > being advertised.. O.k. I didn't see the original thread to this. But yes, all integrated graphics based Intel chipsets are AGP regardless if the chip doesn't advertise it correctly. Alan.