From: Randy Vinson <rvinson@mvista.com>
To: Kendall Bennett <KendallB@scitechsoft.com>
Cc: linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: Write Combining on PowerPC
Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 16:21:07 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <41BA2F63.8060305@mvista.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <41B9A33A.21673.5DDD7F64@localhost>
Kendall Bennett wrote:
[snip]
> Does anyone know if it is possible to do something similar to Write
> Combining for the PowerPC architecture, to speed up CPU access to the
> linear framebuffer?
Yes, it is possible. First you will need to enable Store Gathering for
the Sandpoint's MPC107 bridge. (Go to Platform options->Enable MPC10x
store gathering). You will then need to set the page protections for the
video memory such that _PAGE_GUARDED is removed. The hardware will not
store gather to an area mapped guarded. There appears to be some code to
support this in the PCI MMap routines, but I'm not familiar with the
details.
Randy Vinson
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-12-10 23:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-12-10 21:23 Write Combining on PowerPC Kendall Bennett
2004-12-10 23:21 ` Randy Vinson [this message]
2004-12-13 8:38 ` Lawrence E. Bakst
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