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On some systems, putting vertex and index buffers in VRAM instead of GART
memory eliminates massive graphics corruption which is otherwise present,
due to unclear causes.
This patch adds an environment variable that does that, along with helpful
messages.
It turns it on by default on G7x, as it is what I am seeing corruption
on and some other reports also seemed to pinpoint these cards.
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Currently we allocate buffers in GART or VRAM at creation time.
However, when using swtnl, this results in reads from uncached
memory, which drastically impair performance.
So, for now, cause nouveau_screen.c to not pass any placement flags
to buffer creation, so that the buffers are moved later.
Previously libdrm itself did this, but was changed to not to do it.
This may introduce an extra copy in normal usage, but this currently
does not seem to introduce significant performance degradation.
This will be revisited when pipebuffer is integrated.
Note that for AGP systems, properly solving this may be complex
since currently there is no fast way of reading from GART/VRAM.
We will probably need to try mapping AGP as writethrough and, in
addition, make buffer creation more aware of future buffer usage.
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It was totally broken: the index buffer was passed as NULL!
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Replace the FORCE_SWTNL macro with a NOUVEAU_SWTNL environment variable.
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The files are identical, except for swtnl support which is commented
out on nv30 and restart being initialized on nv30 to avoid a compiler
warning.
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