Re: MTRR stuff

1999-07-30 Thread Brian F. Feldman
On Fri, 30 Jul 1999, Mike Smith wrote: > > For some video cards (to wit, the voodoo stuff), the MTRRs should be set up as > > follows > > > >write-combining > > +--+ > > +---+ > > uncacheable > > > > i.e. the two regions have

Re: MTRR stuff

1999-07-30 Thread Mike Smith
> For some video cards (to wit, the voodoo stuff), the MTRRs should be set up as > follows > >write-combining > +--+ > +---+ > uncacheable > > i.e. the two regions have the same starting area, but the small chunk for the > re

Re: MTRR stuff

1999-07-12 Thread Brian F. Feldman
On Mon, 12 Jul 1999, Mike Smith wrote: > > > > > What exactly are the ranges? You haven't given me enough info yet. I wrote the > > > K6-* MTRR driver, so I'd like to help. > > > > > OK, the Linux 3dfx driver attempts to set up a write combining range starting > > at the card's base address a

Re: MTRR stuff

1999-07-12 Thread Mike Smith
> > > What exactly are the ranges? You haven't given me enough info yet. I wrote the > > K6-* MTRR driver, so I'd like to help. > > > OK, the Linux 3dfx driver attempts to set up a write combining range starting > at the card's base address and 0x40 bytes long. After doing this it then >

Re: MTRR stuff

1999-07-09 Thread Stephen Hocking-Senior Programmer PGS Tensor Perth
> What exactly are the ranges? You haven't given me enough info yet. I wrote the > K6-* MTRR driver, so I'd like to help. > OK, the Linux 3dfx driver attempts to set up a write combining range starting at the card's base address and 0x40 bytes long. After doing this it then sets up a rang

Re: MTRR stuff

1999-07-09 Thread Brian F. Feldman
On Fri, 9 Jul 1999, Stephen Hocking-Senior Programmer PGS Tensor Perth wrote: > > > > > Spits the dummy? And do you mean memcontrol? > > It (memcontrol, I was typing the name from memory at work) complains. I was > trying to set up the MTRRs like the Linux voodoo device driver does. I hadn't

Re: MTRR stuff

1999-07-09 Thread Stephen Hocking-Senior Programmer PGS Tensor Perth
> > Spits the dummy? And do you mean memcontrol? It (memcontrol, I was typing the name from memory at work) complains. I was trying to set up the MTRRs like the Linux voodoo device driver does. I hadn't thought of doing it the way you suggest, as the documentation says that the size has to b

Re: MTRR stuff

1999-07-09 Thread Brian F. Feldman
On Fri, 9 Jul 1999, Stephen Hocking-Senior Programmer PGS Tensor Perth wrote: > For some video cards (to wit, the voodoo stuff), the MTRRs should be set up as > follows > >write-combining > +--+ > +---+ > uncacheable > > i.e.

MTRR stuff

1999-07-08 Thread Stephen Hocking-Senior Programmer PGS Tensor Perth
For some video cards (to wit, the voodoo stuff), the MTRRs should be set up as follows write-combining +--+ +---+ uncacheable i.e. the two regions have the same starting area, but the small chunk for the registers should be un