Date: Sun, 02 Jul 2006 22:02:17 -0600 (MDT) From: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> To: czander@nvidia.com Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NVIDIA FreeBSD kernel feature requests Message-ID: <20060702.220217.2073896080.imp@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <20060629111231.GA692@wolf.nvidia.com> References: <20060629111231.GA692@wolf.nvidia.com>
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Christian Zander <czander@nvidia.com> writes:
: This summary makes an attempt to describe the kernel interfaces needed by
: the NVIDIA FreeBSD i386 graphics driver to achieve feature parity with
: the Linux/Solaris graphics drivers, and/or required to make support for
: the FreeBSD amd64 platform feasible. It also describes some of the
: technical difficulties encountered by NVIDIA during the FreeBSD i386
: graphics driver's development, how these problems have been worked around
: and what could be done to solve them better.
Thank you for taking the time to let us know how we might make the
system better.
: The NVIDIA graphics driver needs to be able to create uncached kernel
: and user mappings of I/O memory, such as NVIDIA GPU registers. The
: FreeBSD kernel does not currently provide the interfaces necessary to
: specify the memory type when creating such mappings, which makes it
: difficult for the NVIDIA graphics driver to guarantee that the correct
: memory type is selected.
Is this via the bus_alloc_resource interface? Is uncached kernel
memory different than non-prefetchable memory? If so, please specify
how it is different. If not, then we have an interface that will do
what you want, except it is only implemented for cardbus and would
need to be implemented for pci pci and pci host bridges. Would having
better functionality here help? I noticed it wasn't on the task list...
Warner
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