[Nouveau] [RFC] Remove AGP support from Radeon/Nouveau/TTM

[Thomas Zimmermann]

Hi

Am 13.05.20 um 11:27 schrieb Emil Velikov:
> On Tue, 12 May 2020 at 20:48, Alex Deucher <alexdeucher at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>>>>
>>>>> There's some AGP support code in the DRM core. Can some of that declared
>>>>> as legacy?
>>>>>
>>>>> Specifically, what about these AGP-related ioctl calls? Can they be
>>>>> declared as legacy? It would appear to me that KMS-based drivers don't
>>>>> have to manage AGP by themselves. (?)
>>>>
>>>> The old drm core AGP code is mainly (only?) for the non-KMS drivers.
>>>> E.g., mach64, r128, sis, savage, etc.
>>>
>>> Exactly my point. There's one drm_agp_init() call left in radeon. The
>>> rest of the AGP code is apparently for legacy non-KMS drivers. Should
>>> the related ioctl calls be declared as legacy (i.e., listed with
>>> DRM_LEGACY_IOCTL_DEF instead of DRM_IOCTL_DEF)? If so, much of the AGP
>>> core code could probably be moved behind CONFIG_DRM_LEGACY as well.
>>
>> Ah, I forgot about drm_agp_init().  I was just thinking the other AGP
>> stuff.  Yeah, I think we could make it legacy.
>>
> Fwiw I've got local patches a) removing drm_agp_init() from radeon and
> b) making the core drm code legacy only.
> Will try to finish them over the weekend and send out.
> 
> Even if AGP GART gets dropped the b) patches will be good ;-)

Fantastic! Please see one of my other comments in this thread. There's
still drm_agp_init() somewhere in radeon_drv.c. So patch a) might still
be useful.

Best regards
Thomas

> 
> -Emil
> 

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