Note that even if you have a frame-buffer, there is nothing to guarantee
that it does single-cycle PCI accesses.
As far as I can tell, the only way to get the PCI bus speed is to try to
access all the devices you have on the thing, time them all (discounting
the ones that are behind a bridge, like a PCI-ISA thing), and try to
look for the lowest common denominator. And personally I wouldn't trust
even that - with write posting potentially on the CPU and having to take
into account the synchronize of the CPU clock to the bus lock etc I
don't see anything that could be considered workable.
Accessing the north or south bridge sounds like the most likely
candidate to get single-cycle accesses, but even with them I'd wonder.
Linus
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