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authorThomas Hellstrom <thellstrom@vmware.com>2009-06-10 15:20:19 +0200
committerDave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>2009-06-15 09:37:57 +1000
commitba4e7d973dd09b66912ac4c0856add8b0703a997 (patch)
tree32a87edb83a427ffd22645c5f77e6cec8be4e719 /drivers/gpu/drm/Kconfig
parente6c03c5b40314d787f7053f631594d6b1bd609e8 (diff)
drm: Add the TTM GPU memory manager subsystem.
TTM is a GPU memory manager subsystem designed for use with GPU devices with various memory types (On-card VRAM, AGP, PCI apertures etc.). It's essentially a helper library that assists the DRM driver in creating and managing persistent buffer objects. TTM manages placement of data and CPU map setup and teardown on data movement. It can also optionally manage synchronization of data on a per-buffer-object level. TTM takes care to provide an always valid virtual user-space address to a buffer object which makes user-space sub-allocation of big buffer objects feasible. TTM uses a fine-grained per buffer-object locking scheme, taking care to release all relevant locks when waiting for the GPU. Although this implies some locking overhead, it's probably a big win for devices with multiple command submission mechanisms, since the lock contention will be minimal. TTM can be used with whatever user-space interface the driver chooses, including GEM. It's used by the upcoming Radeon KMS DRM driver and is also the GPU memory management core of various new experimental DRM drivers. Signed-off-by: Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom@vmware.com> Signed-off-by: Jerome Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
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diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/Kconfig b/drivers/gpu/drm/Kconfig
index f5d46e7199d..64a57adc0a2 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/Kconfig
@@ -18,6 +18,14 @@ menuconfig DRM
details. You should also select and configure AGP
(/dev/agpgart) support.
+config DRM_TTM
+ tristate "TTM memory manager"
+ depends on DRM
+ help
+ GPU memory management subsystem for devices with multiple
+ GPU memory types. Will be enabled automatically if a device driver
+ uses it.
+
config DRM_TDFX
tristate "3dfx Banshee/Voodoo3+"
depends on DRM && PCI