EXA support for nv driver

[Adam Jackson]

On Wednesday 24 August 2005 09:00, Christian Parpart wrote:
> On Wednesday 24 August 2005 10:18, Lars Knoll wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've hacked the nvidia driver lately to add EXA support to it, and at the
> > same time cleaned up some (but far from all) of the number magic in
> > nv_hw.c. I also added some documentation on how to initialize the HW to
> > be able to do DMA (at least as far as I understood it ;-)
>
> [...lots.of.cool.stuff...]
>
> If I understand you correctly, this is the "nv" driver you've got patched
> right? not the "nvidia" (partly-binary) one.

Correct.  nv is the open driver, nvidia is the closed one.

> If so, will there be any chance to get them into the "nvidia" one as well?
> I mean, I wouldn't like to loos 3D support just because of this :)

This makes no sense.  You can't load both the nv and nvidia drivers for the 
same card at once.

exa support in the nvidia driver is totally up to nVidia; but since their 
internal acceleration architecture is both comparable to and similar 
performance to exa, I don't see why they'd bother.

Problems with Render acceleration in the nvidia driver should obviously be 
addressed to nVidia.

- ajax
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