Re: Next round of console patches
Geert Uytterhoeven (Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be)
Wed, 2 Sep 1998 10:54:47 +0200 (CEST)
On Wed, 2 Sep 1998, Vojtech Pavlik wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 02, 1998 at 08:20:32AM +0200, Gerd Knorr wrote:
> > There is. The VESA BIOS will tell you (a) how much video memory the board
> > has installed and (b) where the linear framebuffer starts. vesafb (well,
> > the real mode boot code) asks the BIOS for these values and uses this for
> > the framebuffer device. And for exactly this area the mtrr entry is added.
> >
> > Assuming legal framebuffer space and MMIO don't overlap, this works fine.
>
> As far as I know, this assumption is not true at least for Mach64 based VGA
> cards - they map their MMIO over the last kilobyte of video RAM in the
> aperture.
2 KB for Mach64 VT/GT.
It depends:
- The MMIO overlaps with the little endian aperture only. Big endian rules
again :-)
- You can disable the MMIO overlap and enable the secondary MMIO region.
Don't know what the ATI BIOS does.
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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