Re: PCI Bursting with PIO

[Alan Cox]

On Fri, 15 Feb 2008 10:00:28 -0800
"Dan Gora" <dan.gora@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 5:02 AM, Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > Is there any way to get PIO to burst over the PCI bus in the read and
> >  > write direction?  My device has 4 BAR registers, but the area where I
> >
> >  I think you are doign about as well as the X folks did when they spent
> >  time on trying to optimise pio transfers to and from graphics card RAM.
> >
> 
> That's good to know.  Do you have a link or anything to their
> discussion or some key words that I could hunt it down?

It was some time ago but a look at the X tree will find you the code.
It's basically the same as you did - using MMX.
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