Re: [gentoo-amd64] [OT] AGPART

["Wil Reichert" <wil.reichert@gmail.com>]

On 5/4/07, Jeffrey Gardner <je_fro@gentoo.org> wrote:
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> Daniel Iliev wrote:
> > Hi, guys
> >
> > I have an NForce based motherboard with an integrated
> > [ surprise! ] :) NVidia PCI-X videocard. So, I don't need the agpart
> > driver for my kernel, right? The problem is that I can't switch it off:
> >
> >
> >> Linux Kernel v2.6.20-gentoo-r7 Configuration
> >>      Device Drivers
> >>              Character devices
> >>                       --- /dev/agpgart (AGP Support)
> >
> >
> > The help says:
> >
> >> Selected by: IOMMU && PCI || FB_I810 && FB && EXPERIMENTAL && PCI &&
> >> X86_32 || FB_INTEL && FB && EXPERIMENTAL && PCI && X86
> >
> >
> > My questions:
> > - Is it normal?
> > - Should I disable it (how)?
>
> General setup
> [*] Configure standard kernel features (for small systems)  --->
> [*]   Enable 16-bit UID system calls
>
>                                      [*]   Sysctl syscall support
>
>
>    [*]   Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops
>
>                                         [ ]     Do an extra kallsyms
> pass
>
>            [*]   Support for hot-pluggable devices
>
>                                                   [*]   Enable support
> for printk
>
>                 [*]   BUG() support
>
>                                                       [*]   Enable ELF
> core dumps
>
>                       [*]   Enable full-sized data structures for core
>
>                                                              [*]
> Enable futex support
>
>                                  [*]   Enable eventpoll support
>
>
> [*]   Use full shmem filesystem
>
>                                        [*]   Enable VM event counters
> for /proc/vmstat
>
> Processor type and features
> [ ] IOMMU support
>
> Then you can disable agpgart
Does it really matter either way?  I've been curious about this myself.

Wil
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