[PATCH libdrm 4/4] man: add drm-memory man-page

David Herrmann dh.herrmann at googlemail.com
Mon Sep 24 09:58:08 PDT 2012


Hi Michel

On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 9:45 AM, Michel Dänzer <michel at daenzer.net> wrote:
> On Son, 2012-09-23 at 16:40 +0200, David Herrmann wrote:
>> +
>> +.SS TTM
>> +.B TTM
>> +stands for
>> +.B Translation Table Manager
>> +and is another generic memory-manager provided by the kernel. Only the radeon
>> +driver uses it. See the radeon manpages for more information on
>> +memory-management with radeon and TTM.
>
> What made you think only radeon uses TTM? nouveau, vmwgfx, ast, cirrus
> and mgag200 also use it. I suspect the emerging openchrome KMS support
> does as well.

Whoops, that was my first conception, but I forgot to fix that.
Anyway, I didn't know of any generic API that I could write about here
either so I think I will leave the "TTM" section pretty short. Or any
ideas what could be included here?

Thanks for reviewing! Will be fixed in the next revision.
David


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