On Wed, 2002-10-23 at 07:53, Philip Brown wrote: > >From my driver coding in non-linux areas, I was always taught that > the onus is on the OS to flush the various related areas of > processor cache, before DMA takes place.
The PC it is hardware handled. On sparc hardware its at least partially software even on sparc64. This makes the PC an easy platform to develop on but also explains why lots of drivers break mysteriously the firt time they hit a non x86 box. The AGP gart is subtly different and magical ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net emial is sponsored by: Influence the future of Java(TM) technology. Join the Java Community Process(SM) (JCP(SM)) program now. http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?sunm0002en _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
