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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2009-06-16 21:20:39 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2009-06-16 21:20:39 -0700
commit8d15b0ec32f20a57881dc073b2e8d11dea0ccceb (patch)
tree8aa3d4dfd0660807c3ce2893b35292b3b0e3bf08 /drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/Kconfig
parent005411c3e9147bc3b78215390e847d688dbbc163 (diff)
parentcc8da5263fa743c33d6503f85113bcb70048e633 (diff)
Merge branch 'drm-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/airlied/drm-2.6
* 'drm-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/airlied/drm-2.6: drm/radeon: switch to using late_initcall radeon legacy chips: tv dac bg/dac adj updates drm/radeon: introduce kernel modesetting for radeon hardware drm: Add the TTM GPU memory manager subsystem. drm: Memory fragmentation from lost alignment blocks drm/radeon: fix mobility flags on new PCI IDs.
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+config DRM_RADEON_KMS
+ bool "Enable modesetting on radeon by default"
+ depends on DRM_RADEON
+ select DRM_TTM
+ help
+ Choose this option if you want kernel modesetting enabled by default,
+ and you have a new enough userspace to support this. Running old
+ userspaces with this enabled will cause pain.
+
+ When kernel modesetting is enabled the IOCTL of radeon/drm
+ driver are considered as invalid and an error message is printed
+ in the log and they return failure.
+
+ KMS enabled userspace will use new API to talk with the radeon/drm
+ driver. The new API provide functions to create/destroy/share/mmap
+ buffer object which are then managed by the kernel memory manager
+ (here TTM). In order to submit command to the GPU the userspace
+ provide a buffer holding the command stream, along this buffer
+ userspace have to provide a list of buffer object used by the
+ command stream. The kernel radeon driver will then place buffer
+ in GPU accessible memory and will update command stream to reflect
+ the position of the different buffers.
+
+ The kernel will also perform security check on command stream
+ provided by the user, we want to catch and forbid any illegal use
+ of the GPU such as DMA into random system memory or into memory
+ not owned by the process supplying the command stream. This part
+ of the code is still incomplete and this why we propose that patch
+ as a staging driver addition, future security might forbid current
+ experimental userspace to run.
+
+ This code support the following hardware : R1XX,R2XX,R3XX,R4XX,R5XX
+ (radeon up to X1950). Works is underway to provide support for R6XX,
+ R7XX and newer hardware (radeon from HD2XXX to HD4XXX).