GEM allows the creation of persistent buffer objects accessible by the
graphics device through new ioctls for managing execution of commands on the
device. The userland API is almost entirely driver-specific to ensure that
any driver building on this model can easily map the interface to individual
driver requirements.
GEM is used by the 2d driver for managing its internal state allocations and
will be used for pixmap storage to reduce memory consumption and enable
zero-copy GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap, and in the 3d driver is used to enable
GL_EXT_framebuffer_object and GL_ARB_pixel_buffer_object.
Signed-off-by: Eric Anholt <eric@anholt.net>
Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
With the coming of kernel based modesetting and the memory manager stuff,
the everything in one directory approach was getting very ugly and
starting to be unmanageable.
This restructures the drm along the lines of other kernel components.
It creates a drivers/gpu/drm directory and moves the hw drivers into
subdirectores. It moves the includes into an include/drm, and
sets up the unifdef for the userspace headers we should be exporting.
Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
* Convert files to UTF-8.
* Also correct some people's names
(one example is Eißfeldt, which was found in a source file.
Given that the author used an ß at all in a source file
indicates that the real name has in fact a 'ß' and not an 'ss',
which is commonly used as a substitute for 'ß' when limited to
7bit.)
* Correct town names (Goettingen -> Göttingen)
* Update Eberhard Mönkeberg's address (http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/1/8/313)
Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
This patch removes two unused exports.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>
Remove the memory manager parameter from the put_block function, as this
makes the client code a lot cleaner. Prepare buffer manager for lock and
unlock calls.
Fix buggy aligned allocations.
Remove the stupid root_node field from the core memory manager.
Support multi-page buffer offset alignments
Add improved alignment functionality to the core memory manager.
This makes an allocated block actually align itself and returns any
wasted space to the manager.
Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>
Thanks to Andrew Morton for pointing these out, I've fixed a few his patch
missed.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>
This adds the DRM hashtable and simple memory manager implementations from
Tungsten Graphics, this is NOT the new memory manager, this is a replacement
for the SIS and VIA memory managers.
Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>
Eric Anholt