On Thu, 2004-10-14 at 12:29 +0200, Thomas HellstrÃm wrote:
> 
> is DRM_WRITEMEMORYBARRIER() the right way to make sure data has been
> flushed to AGP memory before firing it off to the DMA engine? 

I think so, assuming DRM_WRITEMEMORYBARRIER boils down to an instruction
with the LOCK prefix. This is pretty well documented in Intel's IA-32
manuals, which you can download from their site, e.g. from

http://www.intel.com/design/pentium4/manuals/index_new.htm


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