The purpose of the gtt structure is to help isolate our gtt specific
properties from the rest of the code (in doing so it help us finish the
isolation from the AGP connection).
The following members are pulled out (and renamed):
gtt_start
gtt_total
gtt_mappable_end
gtt_mappable
gtt_base_addr
gsm
The gtt structure will serve as a nice place to put gen specific gtt
routines in upcoming patches. As far as what else I feel belongs in this
structure: it is meant to encapsulate the GTT's physical properties.
This is why I've not added fields which track various drm_mm properties,
or things like gtt_mtrr (which is itself a pretty transient field).
Reviewed-by: Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi@gmail.com>
[Ben modified commit messages]
Signed-off-by: Ben Widawsky <ben@bwidawsk.net>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
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* For the very latest on DRI development, please see: *
* http://dri.freedesktop.org/ *
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The Direct Rendering Manager (drm) is a device-independent kernel-level
device driver that provides support for the XFree86 Direct Rendering
Infrastructure (DRI).
The DRM supports the Direct Rendering Infrastructure (DRI) in four major
ways:
1. The DRM provides synchronized access to the graphics hardware via
the use of an optimized two-tiered lock.
2. The DRM enforces the DRI security policy for access to the graphics
hardware by only allowing authenticated X11 clients access to
restricted regions of memory.
3. The DRM provides a generic DMA engine, complete with multiple
queues and the ability to detect the need for an OpenGL context
switch.
4. The DRM is extensible via the use of small device-specific modules
that rely extensively on the API exported by the DRM module.
Documentation on the DRI is available from:
http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/Documentation
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=387
http://dri.sourceforge.net/doc/
For specific information about kernel-level support, see:
The Direct Rendering Manager, Kernel Support for the Direct Rendering
Infrastructure
http://dri.sourceforge.net/doc/drm_low_level.html
Hardware Locking for the Direct Rendering Infrastructure
http://dri.sourceforge.net/doc/hardware_locking_low_level.html
A Security Analysis of the Direct Rendering Infrastructure
http://dri.sourceforge.net/doc/security_low_level.html
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