Re: [Dri-devel] Re: [adaplas@pol.net: Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] Fwd:Re: [Dri-devel] future of DRI?]

2003-03-03 Thread Antonino Daplas
On Mon, 2003-03-03 at 09:25, Alan Cox wrote: On early athlon you prefetch non cached memory and the cpu corrupts its cache, on PII, PII mmap frame buffer against a cached page, but the right kind of instruction in a loop with the instruction bridging the two memory types and run it in a tight

Re: [Dri-devel] Re: [adaplas@pol.net: Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] Fwd:Re: [Dri-devel] future of DRI?]

2003-03-02 Thread Alan Cox
On Mon, 2003-03-03 at 00:01, Antonino Daplas wrote: For some cases. The truth is a bit more horrible, and current fbdev has the same problem here. Any early Athlon, and almost any PII/PIII derived chip allows the user to bring the box down if they have access to a mix of cached and