On Mon, 5 Jul 1999, Paul Sargent wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> I wondering if there is any support for AGP specific functions in any
> of the x86 motherboard chipsets. I'm thinking about any configuration
> that might be needed to enable AGP Sideband, 1x, 2x and possibly 4x
> transfers.
>
> I've done a grep on the 2.2.x source code and nothing relevent seems
> to come up. Does anybody have any knowledge on this sort of thing?
>
> Paul
>
Hm... Well, I can say that I've run Linux on a few AGP machines, and can
use vesafb on them. X is starting to work on support for them -- but just
*why* would the kernel have to have AGP specific code? (Forgive me if
that's a stupid question :).
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