[Openchrome-users] latest AGP

[Benno Schulenberg]

Jon Nettleton wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-12-18 at 22:08 +0100, Benno Schulenberg wrote:
> > Bob Davis wrote:
> > > I have already done the patch for drm to work using the
> > > compile directions here.
> > >
> > > http://wiki.openchrome.org/tikiwiki/tiki-index.php?page=Compi
> > >ling +the+source+code
> > >
> > > Can I assume I should follow similar directions for agp?
> >
> > No, just use the agp that comes with your kernel, there is no
> > update necessary.
>
> Actually, the k8m890 chipset is new enough that the kernel does
> not recognize the pci-id for it yet.  We have submitted patches
> and are working with kernel developers to get this fixed.  The
> i386 patch for via-agp.c is attached to bug 82, I am not sure if
> a patch for amd64-agp.c is posted yet for x86_64 systems.

Ah, okay.  But still, any patch should be applied directly to the 
local source of the kernel; there's no need to pull the agp part 
from git.  This just for clarification for the OP.

Benno