Re: FB and MTRR

Geert Uytterhoeven (Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be)
Sun, 2 Aug 1998 23:32:11 +0200 (CEST)

On Sat, 1 Aug 1998, Richard Gooch wrote:
> Hi, Geert. IIRC, you wrote a note about using the FB code on i386,
> and at the end you mentioned using /proc/mtrr to speed up

That wasn't me. I'm no ia32 hacker.

All _I_ have is m68k, PPC and AXP (yes, since friday!).

> performance. Why not have the FB code call the mtrr_add() function
> directly? That's what it's there for: for use by kernel graphics
> drivers.

Any ia32 hacker who's willing to look at this?

Greetings,

Geert

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Geert Uytterhoeven                     Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be
Wavelets, Linux/{m68k~Amiga,PPC~CHRP}  http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~geert/
Department of Computer Science -- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven -- Belgium




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