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drm/i915: framebuffer compression for pre-GM45

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This patch adds framebuffer compression (good for about ~0.5W power
savings in the best case) support for pre-GM45 chips.  GM45+ have a new,
more flexible FBC scheme that will be added in a separate patch.

FBC can't always be enabled: the compressed buffer must be physically
contiguous and reside in stolen space.  So if you have a large display
and a small amount of stolen memory, you may not be able to take
advantage of FBC.  In some cases, a BIOS setting controls how much
stolen space is available.  Increasing this to 8 or 16M can help.

Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
Signed-off-by: Eric Anholt <eric@anholt.net>
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Jesse Barnes 2009-09-10 15:28:06 -07:00 • committed by Eric Anholt
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