Howdy!
Passing this along from the GLX list. It appears you can't use memset to
filling in pixel values for the framebuffer on a PowerPC.
> >> One interesting thing I ran into today: memsets use the PPC dcbz
(data
> >> cache block zero) instruction, which is a Good Thing, but it causes a
bus
> >> error if you do it to the framebuffer, which is marked as uncachable.
That
> >> threw me for a while.
> >
Ah nice catch, now i know why ggi fails with fbdev in ppc :)
> >How did you get around that problem?
>
> I had to do my own simple little loop based memset routine.
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