From: Alistair John Strachan <s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk>
To: Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: 2.6.15-rc1 - NForce4 PCI-E agpgart support?
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 18:02:47 +0000
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On Wednesday 16 November 2005 15:09, Mark Knecht wrote:
> On 11/16/05, Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> wrote:
> > On Wed, 2005-11-16 at 06:50 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >    I downloaded and built 2.6.15-rc1 as a test assuming Ingo will
> > > release -rt support for this one of these days. (No rush Ingo!) It
> > > booted on my AMD64 machine and is running fine AFAICT.
> > >
> > >    One thing I was expecting to see was agpgart support for the
> > > NForce4 chipset. Is this something that's coming or am I missing where
> > > the configuration is done?
> > >
> > >    I have a PCI-Express based Radeon and would like to get better
> > > performance. I'm presuming that agpgart support is part of that
> > > solution? (As it was on earlier architectures?)
> >
> > I'm pretty sure PCI-Express and AGP are mutually exclusive....
>
> Ah, of course! My bad... They are different buses and connectors. I
> was really thinking more of the 'gart' part of the agpgart.
>
> Is there any requirement/need/value for something like a PCI-E-gart?
> Or does this relocation requirement go out the window somehow when a
> graphics device moves to PCI-Express?

Yes, you don't need it with PCIe.

-- 
Cheers,
Alistair.

'No sense being pessimistic, it probably wouldn't work anyway.'
Third year Computer Science undergraduate.
1F2 55 South Clerk Street, Edinburgh, UK.
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