max size for XV on savage

Alex Deucher alexdeucher at gmail.com
Sat Sep 8 20:39:49 PDT 2007


On 9/3/07, Dag Nygren <dag at newtech.fi> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Is there a good reason for the savage driver to limit the
> max size of an XV windows to 1024x1024 ?
>
> This is starting to be a problem with the new HD contents
> available...

Those were just the limits the driver had when it was originally
written.  On the newer savage chips at least, the hw limit is
2048x2048, although you may hit memory bandwidth limits much sooner.
Unfortunately, this is the least of the problems with the savage
overlay hw.

Alex



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