> > > But the *fb drivers do provide a nomtrr option in many cases. (But I'd > > like to remove it from them too :-) or at least default those to off) > > Sounds sane. Nvidia posted some patches a while ago that seem to be > getting kicked around a bit again to add support for PAT (per page > attributes) on PII Xeon and higher which will help no end
These patches really need someone with some VM experience, the aliasing issues with having cacheable and non-cacheable mappings for one physical memory area was beyond my experience and time constraints at this stage.. Dave. ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42" plasma tv or your very own Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php -- _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list Dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel