[PATCH 1/3] viafb: use write combining for video ram

[Florian Tobias Schandinat]

This can give a speed up of factor 6-9, which is quite notable.

Signed-off-by: Florian Tobias Schandinat <FlorianSchandinat@xxxxxx>
---
 drivers/video/via/via-core.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/video/via/via-core.c b/drivers/video/via/via-core.c
index 6723d69..5b0129b 100644
--- a/drivers/video/via/via-core.c
+++ b/drivers/video/via/via-core.c
@@ -505,7 +505,7 @@ static int __devinit via_pci_setup_mmio(struct viafb_dev *vdev)
 	ret = vdev->fbmem_len = viafb_get_fb_size_from_pci(vdev->chip_type);
 	if (ret < 0)
 		goto out_unmap;
-	vdev->fbmem = ioremap_nocache(vdev->fbmem_start, vdev->fbmem_len);
+	vdev->fbmem = ioremap_wc(vdev->fbmem_start, vdev->fbmem_len);
 	if (vdev->fbmem == NULL) {
 		ret = -ENOMEM;
 		goto out_unmap;
-- 
1.6.3.2

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